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- noun Plural form of
emdash .
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Generally I aim for Feedbooks quality—that is, tables of contents, flowable text, emdashes/endashes and nice scene breaks, etc.
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Kerry, who very generously posted a comment over the weekend about how to deal with that pesky Autoformat feature in Word that insists upon changing all of our standard format-mandated doubled dashes into emdashes, those long, word-to-word lines that we writers know better than to include in our manuscripts.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Book marketing 101: the submission packet itself 2007
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Even when you corner me to ask if I REALLY meant it about changing all of the emdashes in your manuscripts to doubled dashes.
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Even when you corner me to ask if I REALLY meant it about changing all of the emdashes in your manuscripts to doubled dashes.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Hanging with the cool kids 2006
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Usually there are dash-problems to fix up (emdashes as "-" instead of "--") and other minor stuff like that.
The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley
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Aside from her excessive use of ellipses and emdashes-as in, not only very often, but also using five times too many each time, so "---" and
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide 2010
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I don’t know whose else’s, but they did a very nice job with emdashes, smart quotes, a table of contents.
From the eBookery: My Man Jeeves | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008
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Before I get started on today’s self-editing extravaganza, my friends, let’s all hear it for new reader Kerry, who very generously posted a comment over the weekend about how to deal with that pesky Autoformat feature in Word that insists upon changing all of our standard format-mandated doubled dashes into emdashes, those long, word-to-word lines that we writers know better than to include in our manuscripts.
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While I’m incorporating good ideas from readers, the last time I ran through standard format, clever reader Kerry passed along how to turn off that pesky Autoformat feature that turns doubled dashes into emdashes, causing much gnashing of teeth.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Book marketing 101: the submission packet itself 2007
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Before I get started on today’s self-editing extravaganza, my friends, let’s all hear it for new reader Kerry, who very generously posted a comment over the weekend about how to deal with that pesky Autoformat feature in Word that insists upon changing all of our standard format-mandated doubled dashes into emdashes, those long, word-to-word lines that we writers know better than to include in our manuscripts.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The plague of passivity 2007
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