[Anna]

Thanks for the follow-up!  That explains a lot.  Romani is actually a separate language from Romanian.  Romanian has similar roots to Italian and French, while Romani is related to languages spoken in India.  Since Romani isn't a Word Braille Usage language, using the UEB accent symbols is absolutely the correct approach.

[Anna]

Ok, thanks for adding the picture.  If this has definitively been identified as Romanian, I think that is the best way to deal with the symbols.

I have a suspicion that it's not actually Romanian.  Google Translate's "detect language" feature labels it as Croatian, which would certainly fit with the symbols you've indicated.  Does the song also have the comma-below letters or the accented vowels found in the Romanian alphabet (and not the Croatian alphabet)?  If not I would be increasingly suspicious.  Still, if the requestor says it's Romanian, treating it as Romanian is a very reasonable thing to do.

[Anna]

I'd be interested to see an image of the accented letter.  It may be a symbol added as a pronunciation aid, a symbol previously but no longer in use, or potentially the song is in a dialect (although you'd probably see other alphabetical differences in that case).  For any of those possibilities, the safest bet is to use the UEB modifier that matches, or use a transcriber-defined modifier if it doesn't match any of the symbols in UEB section 4.2.

[Anna]

Thanks - I don't have direct access to the requestor.  It's just in these first three lines.

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[Anna]

Attached is my interpretation of the Hindi text.

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Fred-

I think I understand what you're describing: something that acts like a page break but there's no page break command there to remove.  I would check the formatting on the paragraphs above and below.  It may just be that "keep together / keep with next" is checked for no reason.  This has happened for me and I can't explain why it happens but the fix is easy.

[Anna]

Thanks Dorothy.  That makes sense.  In the combined volume, page 218 of the later TOC won't be included (because it applies to later volumes) - do I need a TN or is doing a combined page number on the next body page enough?

[Anna]

My file was too big, so I found an example online.  Sorry the resolution is poor.

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[Anna]

Yes.  The shortform can be part of a larger word when it's at the beginning of a word and followed by a consonant (except y), so "llc" would be read as "littlec" (doesn't matter that the latter is not a word).

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