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I'm in the *it depends* camp on hyphens. For instance, and you'll hate me, but if I get going on the Jerry Todd's and Poppy Ott's, the to-days are probably gonna stand. Because I grew up up with those books and it would feel downright ODD not to see them. But I'll think on it. But in some books, you'll get a single or double instance of teen-ager or week-end or something like that, and I don't necessarily feel the need to preserve those. I do tend to go with the modern style of not italicizing punctuation. And I most definitely separate out my italics by vocal emphasis vs. visual emphasis. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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I didn't know that, but honestly, I'm with Jon on this. (Though I disagree about no spaces for the ellipsis character. )
I *hate* em-dashes with spaces. I'm not real crazy about en-dashes with spaces either, but it's tolerable. Seems to me that if Amazon has a problem with em-dashes in their reading engine, said reading engine should get fixed, because an em-dash isn't exactly breaking news. They are in a LOT of books and have been for years and years. And a company in the business of selling ebooks ought to be able to figure out how to handle them with search, IMHO. Besides, I just tried it with Dapple Gray and didn't notice any particular issue when searching. (KF8) A lot of the big publishing houses use em-dashes without spaces, and if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me. |
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By the way, TTS can, in some apps, actually pronounce foreign language words correctly if they are marked up with the appropriate language. So it's not *that* far of a jump to think that eventually, TTS/screen readers could emphasize a word as well. If I want to take the time to create better semantics, why not? Who, exactly, does it harm? The average reader could care less about the code and it's not even that much bloat! Last edited by graycyn; 12-15-2022 at 08:23 PM. Reason: Added a paragraph or two |
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– Only one type of dash (you can use en- or em- as you please, as long as you use the same type consistently), and always surrounded by spaces – except of course in the beginning and end of a paragraph. (The emdash-like character sometimes used to signify dialog is a "horizontal bar", unicode ― – if correctly coded). – Same goes for ellipsis, except where it acts as a stand-in for a missing part of a word. Just to clarify … Regards, Kim |
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