Yes, a long dash or m-dash is a prettier version of the old dash-dash. But you can't find one directly from the keyboard. Some programs like MS Word, let you encode one by simply typing two dashes. Yet I do not know how a long dash is reproduced in Braille. but the text 'm-dash' is not what the braille decoder should put on a line. Guido Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html Pam Quinn <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/16/2004 03:05 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] m dash In most of the books that I scan, I notice what says it's an m dash. It should be the double dash, but this "m dash" when translated to braille just shows the two words without a space or dash or anything between them. Is there an m dash on the keyboard, and would I replace it with two dashes, or would there be a space before and after the two dashes? Pam