[bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted Outtakes from a Marriage
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:09:20 -0700 (PDT)
Bud, yes, it is the dash next to the zero on the keyboard--at least on
mine--what's called the qwerty keyboard. So instead of an em dash use two of
the small dashes and no space between them and the words on either side.
Cindy
--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Bud Schwab <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Bud Schwab <budschwab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: submitted Outtakes from a Marriage
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 9:28 AM
> Hi Cindy,
>
> Thanks for the info. I'll try it the next time.
> I'm not too
> familiar about the various kind of dashes. I use the dash
> just to
> the right of zero at times. Would that one do and should
> there be a
> space before and after? I'll try it on an old book
> here that I have
> already sent in just in case I ruin it.
> Good luck to me.
>
> Bud
> At 12:21 AM 8/29/2008, you wrote:
> >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
> > >
> > >
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