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Only the title page is transcribed in literary code. A supplementary title page would follow Nemeth rules.
No one could have possibly foreseen how long it was going to take to complete the Guidelines and Standards for Tactile Graphics publication!! Even the committee members themselves have predicted several times that they were almost finished. It is my understanding that they have devoted the past year to addressing the many concerns expressed by the reviewers. They have now submitted a greatly revised edition to BANA for approval. I can certainly understand your frustration over which guidelines to follow in your transcriptions. Others have found themselves in a similar dilema. The best answer that I can give you to that when you work for several different agencies (or proofreaders), discuss and establish between the two of you what the expectations are for each particular contract before you get started.
NBA has already given workshops based on the DRAFT document, because the guidelines are generally based on “best practises” that have already been established by many individuals and agencies. Yes, there are a few instances where the guidelines will differ from the Guidelines for Math Diagrams, and those are the exceptions which will have to be discussed between the transcriber and proofreader. We are offering another tactile strand at the NBA conference in Raleigh, NC, in October. Even that material has been delayed in the writing stage in hopes of getting the very latest information from the committee that is working on the guidelines. Rest assured that there will be announcements from BANA and NBA when the guidelines are official adopted!The clef signs, if you decide to include them, would be the first signs of music in each part, as part of the first measures, very much like hand signs. It is not necessary to restate the clefs in successive parallels. If there were hand signs, the clefs would follow the hand signs.
LarryThanks for your thoughts, Larry. My feeling was that, because this is part of a university course outline, including as much information as possible from the print version might be a good idea. Now I’m wondering if in a little sonata for viola and cembalo, where the two clefs are different (C for the viola and F for the cembalo) it might be a good thing to include the clef signs in the transcription … for the same reason, that for students, maybe maximum info is a good thing. That said, if they were shown, I wouldn’t know where to place the clef signs on each parallel of the transcription. Neither BANA nor DeGarmo cover that situation.
a – Should the marginal illustration be inserted on the line immediately following the lines where the words “Figure 2” and “Figure 4” appear in the text, or should it be inserted at the end of the completed sentence?
I would place the figures at the end of the paragraph in which they are cited. That’s better than interrupting the text.The captions for the figures (FIGURE 1, FIGURE 2, etc) would be in 7/5 as captions normally are. Tactile Graphics Guidelines propose that graphics be placed at the left margin for ease in finding them. Do not place your graphic so its left margin is indented as marginal material. No reference indicator is required for captions.
Should the margins for this note be cell 5 (heading) “Looking Ahead to Calculus” and 7/5 for the text portion of the note?
If you are going to make the decision to use cell 5 headings for a certain kind of marginal note (such as “Looking Ahead to Calculus”) then just format the text following the heading as you would normally format it — the paragraph would start in cell 3 with runovers in cell 1 and displayed items in 3/5.
If you want to treat this material as marginal material, with a general reference indicator (not a literary one) then your note will begin in 7 with runovers in 5, and the diplayed would have to be 7/9. In this event, the heading would probably have to become a paragraph heading on the same line as the following text. Be sure to look through your book to determine if there will be any comparable marginal material that could present a problem with your chosen format.
Yes, single letter abbreviations require the letter indicator even though they are enclosed in grouping symbols.
Your format is good. However, you must use the numeric indicator in your table because you would need guide dots, and there are minus signs in the table entries. I have attached a suggestion for another way to do the tables. I’m not saying you must do it my way, or even that my way is the correct way — I’m just showing another option. Also, this is a sequentially numbered table in a technical text, so the table label must be on line 25 of every page to which the table extends. I am open to suggestions about ways to improve my attempt. I was trying to avoid having to key the summations at the bottom of the 3rd and 4th columns.
Hi Gil. It’s good to hear from you again.
You can set this excerpt as a slight variant of the format for an accompanied solo. You can include any dynamics and other details in the “solo outline” line. You don’t need to use the orchestral format, so no marginal abbreviations are necessary. If the information that it is for trumpet in E-flat and orchestral reduction is not included in the introductory text, you can put that in a TN above the excerpt. I think the term “orchestral reduction” clearly implies that it is for piano.
Glad you’re back on the job.
LarryThis issue of accented letters not used by the foreign language is touched upon in the current Interim Manual. This is much more clearly and specifically stated in the new foreign language rules now under review by BANA. Here is the direct quotation:
1.3 Types of foreign language texts
a. Entirely foreign text. Transcribe such texts using uncontracted braille and the appropriate foreign alphabet symbols as provided in Rules 13 and 14.
NOTE: If an accented letter occurs which is not part of that language, use dot 4 before the letter. Insert a transcriber’s note immediately to explain the format.Unless the text identifies that second language as Hawaiian, it is not appropriate for the transcriber to assume that it is, although I happen to agree with you and I think that it is too. However, we do know that you are working in Spanish and the letter in that name has a non-Spanish accented letter. Use a dot 4 accent indicator and simply state in the TN that the accent indicator is used for accented letters that do not occur in Spanish. If this occurs more than once, consider a transcriber’s note on the TN page, rather than an individual TN every time this occurs.
–Joanna
The question about the a tilde was from another braillists so I have no print for that.
I am attaching the entire print page from my book. It is a story entirely in Spanish with names that appear to be Hawaiian.
I have not received the print sample I asked for with regard to the first question. I really need a print sample for your question as well. I simply cannot give the best answer I can find with just a tiny snippet. I need to see the context. Please send the page that has each of these situations. For instance, the a tilde does not occur in Spanish. Is the word that you have in another language? Do you know what language it is? That is one of the reasons I need to have a context.
I agree that your second question is probably someone’s name. I need to see other instances as well.
–Joanna
