[gui-talk] The voicing of m dash

[Charles Oppermann]

That's because it's an "em dash" character, not a regular dash character. The Unicode character set includes several different dash-like characters.  Here are some that I put in using the Character Map tool.

-       Regular Dash
‐       Hyphen
-       En (“e n”) Dash
-       Em (“e m”) Dash
―       Horizontal Bar

I’d forgotten the meanings of En versus Em dashes and had to look it up here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

Charles Oppermann | Program Manager | Speech Components | Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/chuckop/

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Allen Maynard
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:00 AM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash

Hi, listers,

How do you set it so Jaws will not say "M dash" when it sees a dash, I'm
assuming?

I am using Jaws 8, office 2003, and Windows XP-pro.

It says this "m dash" in Word and sometimes on web pages and it is
annoying.

Thanks

Sincerely,

Allen Maynard
Access Technology Specialist
Computer Services Department
Hadley School for the Blind
Phone:  toll-free:  800-323-4238
Email:  allen at hadley.edu
Web Site:  www.hadley.edu
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