Thread: Punctuation rules of thumb?
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Old 05-23-2021, 09:25 AM   #67
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Originally Posted by AlanHK View Post
Good luck with that. One of the first things I do when I get a new ms is check all the hyphens and dashes (and quotemarks and ellipses).

I see incorrect dash/hyphens all the time in professionally published books now.
And almost every ebook.
The hot lead typesetters are turning in their graves....
What sort of errors do you find?
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