Chris Clemens
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If the abbreviation follows a space or a hyphen, punctuate as in literary braille. However, if the abbreviation consists of an unspaced series of numbers and letters, the letters should be individually capitalized and punctuated mathematically, according to the latest update on BANA's website. So your final example (1040EZ.) would look like this:
[braille]#1040,e,z_4
Thank you for answering the question posted here. You are correct that the braille symbol for this is 456, 123456. It stands for proportionality.
The only other thing that I found in the Nemeth Code Book that could resemble an 8 turned sideways, with one end open is on page 23.
The Greek lower-case alpha (ordinary lower-case a).If you don't have the (Green) Nemeth Code Book the dots for this are 456, 123456.
You would put a space before and after the variation symbol.
Hope this helps.Sounds like it could be variation?
See page 144 (12) in The Nemeth Braille Code For Mathematics And Science Notation, 1972 Revision (Green Code Book).The solution is to turn off the auto-correct feature in your software that changes straight-quotes to smart quotes.
Betty Marshall
I apologize for the delay in answering your question. I am consulting with someone who has an understanding of chemistry. Hopefully we will have an answer tomorrow.
If this were a book entirely in English and you encountered an accented letter in someone's name, you would use the dot 4 accent indicator because accented letters don't occur in English in the same way as in other languages. English does not have accented letters. In Spanish you have encountered an accented letter that does not occur in that language, so you do the same thing. Use the dot 4 accent indicator preceding that u and list this as a regular special symbol (not as part of the Spanish accented letters). Do the same whenever you encounter an accented letter that does not occur in the language you are working in, whether it's English or some other language.
Hope that helps.
--Joanna
"The 2010 Spanish book (an entirely foreign text 1.3.a) that I am transcribing has an "a" tilde."
My book has a similar situation.
Gato enfadado:
el vientre hundido
pelo crizado.
--Karen SenryūThe ū is in the name in the attribution, so probably will only appear once in the book.
How should the ū be brailled?
edited by myrtle12345 on 7/10/2010Hi,
Thanks for your question. The Instruction Manual tells us to use a letter indicator with lowercase roman numerals; however, with letters enclosed in punctuation, it is not necessary IF they are designating topics in outlines or listings. If they are not designating topics in outlines or listings, then a letter indicator is necessary, even if they are enclosed in parenthesis.
Hope this helps.
JanaThank you for sending the print example. It is very helpful. Bajo is indeed a subentry as you have shown.
See Braille Formats Rule 5 section 2e for the swung dash. There is a distinction made if the swung dash is lightface (which I interprete to be regular typeface) or boldface. I didn't know this myself and I was unable to determine from the print page whether your swung dash is bold or not. It kind of looks like bold, but I'm not sure. You can probably tell yourself from the actual print. If not, take your best guess. Don't forget to list this as a Special Symbol. Follow print for spacing. It looks like a space before and after in your print.
Lightface swung dash is [braille].-- and boldface is [braille]_.--
--Joanna
Thanks, Janna!
It's just that I already know braille having grown up with a blind cousin and been interested in it for a long time. The NFB site says the course takes 'a minimum of 12-18 months to complete' and that’s too long for me.
Tim
