[bksvol-discuss] Re: More Questions about proofreading.
- From: Nimit Kaur <kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 22:48:12 -0500
I think volunteers should get a new guide/manual that says what is
expected and what the conversion tool thingy can handle. That would
be pretty helpful. Know what I mean?
On 11/18/13, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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