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Old 06-13-2008, 07:12 PM   #16
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Can you read that format on a Kindle??
NO if you have a Kindle you should get the Kindle/Mobipocket formated DVD.

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Old 06-13-2008, 11:36 PM   #17
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Yeah, and I found those as a free download .... somewhere. I can't remember now.
Perhaps you got them here as both are posted here.
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Old 06-14-2008, 11:19 AM   #18
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Perhaps you got them here as both are posted here.
That's very likely. In fact, extremely likely.
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Old 06-23-2008, 09:14 PM   #19
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There as a new version of The Secret Adversary posted not long ago in LRF, PRC, IMP, and PDB.
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There as a new version of The Secret Adversary posted not long ago in LRF, PRC, IMP, and PDB.
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The new version has em dashes, italics, and the nice quotes/apostrophes. It's not from the Project Gutenberg source as the PG source doesn't have italics.
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Old 06-23-2008, 10:05 PM   #22
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The new version has em dashes, italics, and the nice quotes/apostrophes. It's not from the Project Gutenberg source as the PG source doesn't have italics.
I'm not certain I'd know what an em dash was if it jumped in my lap and called me mama.
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Old 06-24-2008, 02:22 PM   #23
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I'm not certain I'd know what an em dash was if it jumped in my lap and called me mama.
It's the one that's larger than an en dash
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Old 06-24-2008, 02:33 PM   #24
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It's the one that's larger than an en dash
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Old 06-24-2008, 02:48 PM   #25
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a hyphen is a very short dash -. An endash is the width of the letter n. An emdash is the width of the letter m.
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Old 06-24-2008, 03:07 PM   #26
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a hyphen is a very short dash -. An endash is the width of the letter n. An emdash is the width of the letter m.
More importantly they mean different things. A hyphen is used to break a word at the end of a line or to combine two words. It can also be used as a minus sign in numbers. An endash is normally used to specify a range of values in numbers. An emdash is usually used to set apart a thought or line of reasoning in a book where it will be used in pairs. It may also be used to represent a trailing off of a sentence or when a sentence is interrupted by another person. It is the different uses that make in important to use the correct symbol for the correct meaning. Often Gutenberg eBooks get this wrong as pure ASCII doesn't have an emdash.

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BTW - Patricia, I know you know this but perhaps the original question was more about why than just what the character looked like.

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Old 06-24-2008, 05:34 PM   #27
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More importantly they mean different things. A hyphen is used to break a word at the end of a line or to combine two words. It can also be used as a minus sign in numbers. An endash is normally used to specify a range of values in numbers. An emdash is usually used to set apart a thought or line of reasoning in a book where it will be used in pairs. It may also be used to represent a trailing off of a sentence or when a sentence is interrupted by another person. It is the different uses that make in important to use the correct symbol for the correct meaning. Often Gutenberg eBooks get this wrong as pure ASCII doesn't have an emdash.

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BTW - Patricia, I know you know this but perhaps the original question was more about why than just what the character looked like.

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If you are talking about my comment .... a little of both. I've never heard of the character before coming here. I might have used it in writing ... but never thought of it as any thing more than a dash.

So now I know .....
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Old 06-24-2008, 08:09 PM   #28
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If you are talking about my comment .... a little of both. I've never heard of the character before coming here. I might have used it in writing ... but never thought of it as any thing more than a dash.

So now I know .....
Didn't we have a discussion here once about the correct uses of "..." in sentences? Could have been somewhere else.

I believe the consensus was that "..." should always begin immediately after the last character of the preceding word, consist of three "."'s and have a space before the next word.

Example: The big headed robot squinted and picked... the blue one next to the fish.
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Yes: the three dots are called an ellipsis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
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Yes: the three dots are called an ellipsis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
Well, darn. I thought they were called "dotdotdot".
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