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Hi. If the only instances of minus signs in this book are all superscripts and you don't have any baseline minus signs to contend with, you could probably state in a tn that the superscript position of the minus sign in this volume is not retained. However, if you have any expressions where some minus signs are not superscript, to change the minus signs would not maintain the meaning intended by the editor. Alternatively you could exempt just the minus signs in number lines from the superscript requirement.
I use a texture key. Yes, there are at least 3 print pages of Algebra tile activities at the end of each chapter. Usually about 10 braille pages. I've been working on these for awhile and now I'm wondering if a single TN about the colors is enough, since I had to write myself a key as I'm working so I don't get mixed up. Do you think I should do a duplicate key opposite each braille page? It's seems like a lot of information to keep in your head for 10 pages and some of the arrangements seem awfully complex.
Otherwise, it's going pretty well with the suggestions you gave me, thank you!Graphing calculator screen shots are not computer screen shots. There are currently no official guidelines for transcribing these screens. You may use contractions wherever they would be allowed by the Nemeth Code. I would advise indicating the screen with box lines. The spacing shown in the matrix in print is actually the correct spacing for a matrix, one cell between each column of numbers. Note that the minus sign is directly under the first digit of the number above, just as it would be done with a regular matrix. Transcribe the information in the screen following the Nemeth Code. Exceptions would be that no blank lines appear above and below the matrix in the print screen, and the ending bracket that follows the enlarge bracket appears on the bottom line of the matrix rather than the top line. The bold face indicator for letters and numbers could be used before the highlighted letters even though it would interfere with the alignment of the colons. The highlighted words would then have to be enclosed in boldface indicators, but I assume there would still be room to list those words horizontally across the top of the screen. Your only other option would be to create a symbol that you assign to mean the text is highlighted. I have no suggestions for that.
Hi. One committee member suggested using a bold typeform indicator for the numbers with the diagonal lines. This would require a tn explaining the way the diagonal lines are represented. Speaking for myself, I would tool a diagonal line that did not obscure the numbers because even with a tn, I think it would be difficult to recognize that the numbers should be read on the diagonal instead of just as a series of bold numbers in the matrix. Either way would require a tn.
Thanks for your patience. I asked for the print title because most of the time these things are figured out according to what they look like. Simple as that. I ran this by someone with expertise in these copyright pages along with my suggestion and it was confirmed. Use just the main 2012 Copyright by Houghton Mifflin, etc because that includes all the rest of them. Generally, the main copyright is the only one listed on the braille title page.
--Joanna
I also am working on a first grade workbook. I just found a reference in new guidelines in Appendix C that states: Double-Spaced Material Two blank lines where there is normally one blank line. Current Early Literacy guidelines states Never more than 1 blank line. Do you advise us to start using two blank lines again? We were only using the two blank lines if one blank line formatting made reading unclear, as with poetry. Thanks Joanna.
Hello. Thank you for this interesting example. The vertical line in an augmented matrix can be spurred, or it can be made with a tactile strip. You can also use spaced braille dots (456) if you explain in a transcriber's note. I have answered your other questions in the attached file which also includes a simbraille example of Step 3. I would not use a key since there is no reason to follow the side-by-side print layout.
The rule (NC Sec.48) actually applies to work arranged spatially for *computation, not to graphics, but I see no reason not to use the general omission symbol here.
One more question about shaded squares. I have a number line with fractions above and the decimal equivalent underneath. After 0.2 there are shaded squares for the next seven positions, followed by 1.0 for 10/10. Since number lines are considered a graphic illustration, I use the omission symbol for these shaded squares also, correct?
