Hi Larry,
Hmmm, well, could you find a single hyphen anywhere in any document and
then get the ANSI value for it? For JAWS it used to be to press the five on
the numpad with the numlock off three times and it would tell you, but that
was a long time ago and it may have changed.
I can create single hyphens in an rtf file with my Pac Mate, but I have no
idea how to get the ANSI value for a character on the Pac Mate. If anyone
knows here and wants to post it, I'll try it and see what I get.
Evan
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Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 10:05 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: searching for a hyphen
Evan, when I put alt 0 4 5, the double hyphen still shows up just as if I
had searched for hyphen.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:56 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: searching for a hyphen
Hi Susan,
Turn your numpad on and try alt-045. Hold down the alt key and enter 045 on
the numpad. My K1000 says dash, but I think it is the hyphen. If it isn't
I'll look further.
Evan
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From: Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender "rogerbailey81" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 9:48 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Ann Parsons
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: searching for a hyphen
They are not really the same thing. My long experience with print books
before I became blind tells me that the dash is always longer than the
hyphen. The trouble is that keyboards don't distinguish between them.
Way back when I was taking typing class in high school I think there was
one typewriter that actually had both a hyphen and a dash on its
keyboard. I was never lucky enough to use that typewriter though. We
were instructed that when a dash came along we were to use a double
hyphen in place of it and I think Bookshare accepts double hyphens in
place of dashes or M dashes. With that said, though, I have no idea how
to search for one and exclude the other in a computer text unless one
can be sure that dashes are represented by double hyphens.
On 11/29/2017 9:14 PM, Ann Parsons wrote:
Hi Larry,
hyphens and dashes are the same thing.
Ann P.
