[gui-talk] The voicing of m dash

[albert griffith]

I'd like to know what the character is for, "em dash"?  What's its Braille
equivalent?  or how is it used?  I've heard it often in news articles in the
New York times but I've never bbeen able to understand what it's for.

-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:04 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash

I reiterate. Do you *really* want to remain in ignorance of the printed
characters you are working with? To me, that's like saying that you don't
care whether your characters are uppercase, bolded or italic.

Mike

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Allen Maynard
  To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
  Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 9:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash


  Hi, Mr. Oppermann and list,

  Is there a way to set Jaws 8 not to voice this?


  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

  -----Original Message-----
  From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Charles Oppermann
  Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:55 AM
  To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
  Subject: Re: [gui-talk] The voicing of m dash

  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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