[bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions about proofreading.
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 19:31:24 -0800
You're right. I just checked the notes I have saved and you're right and
I'm wrong.em dashes have no spaces on either side and eh ellipses are to be
treated like a word with spaces on either side of the series of dots.
Thank you for catching and correcting my misinformation. bnig smile
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Now I am *so* confused, Cindy! I thought we were to remove spaces before
> and after an em-dash. Ugh! Hope I have not been doing it wrong; some of
> my books have tons of them. I thought the only thing we put spaces before
> and after are most ellipsis, with certain exceptions like next to quotation
> marks. Hopefully Madeleine will set the record straight!
>
> Valerie
>
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:42 AM, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> As someone may have explained; the em dash indicates a pause in thought
> between 2 phrases or ideas; similar to but different from elipses. There
> should be a space before and after the em dash so the words don't run
> together; if you have a book in which that's not the case you should report
> it to quality control so the book can be fxed
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:16 PM, <ohio1803@xxxxx> wrote:
>
>> *You folks are amazing. I really appreciate how hard you all work.*
>> *I appreciated reading the posts on this thread. How important and
>> serious this business. To make all of our reading material just as fine as
>> it can be.*
>> *Thank you!*
>>
>> *I have not tried to proofread a submitted book for quite some time.*
>> *I am still baffled and confused by it all, and have just continued to do
>> the best job I can in scanning some books that I want to read, and to
>> prepare the book in the best condition that I can, based largely in part as
>> to what I understand is best for acceptance the proofreader’ time.*
>>
>> *This thread showed me I think that it is still best to move page numbers
>> to the top of the page. *
>> *As to the m dash, I have never done anything with them, but had wondered
>> what was to be done. I do find them often an irritant * *to the reading
>> experience, hearing the words running together, sometimes to even make it
>> hard to understand the words.*
>>
>> *Thanks again.*
>> *Rik*
>>
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