This should not use the e-a sign. It's a rare form - usually it's
hyphenated - but I did find one example in my Web-Braille books:
%ort-sleev$ %irt & 8 wideawake hat1 &
--
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>
"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
--Fred Allen