yes and no. We are supposed to keep em dashes without spaces, but actually we are supposed to change them from em dashes to double single dashes, or hyphens, perhaps for the very reason you mention. Cindy One thing bothers me not just about this book but > in most > books they seem to use a dash between two words with no > spaces, and > when it reads back, at least with Kurzweil, it > mispronounces a lot of > it and usually doesn't sound the first letter of the > second > word. This has been bothering me for some time now. Are > we just > supposed to leave it that way? Anybody else running into > that? > > > > Bud Schwab > W 6 Z Y P > Malibu, California > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the word > 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.