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[quote=EwingKaty]Hello,
I am a volunteer braille transcriber and am just completing the textbook course using EDIT-PC. I am considering buying Braille2000 and want to be sure I am ordering the correct version. There is the Basic Edition for $359, Direct Entry Edition for $619, and Document Processing Edition for $949. I’m guessing that what I need is the Direct Entry Edition. Can you give me advice on this, or know who I should be asking about this?
Thank you
Katy Ewing[/quote]Dont worry, i have braille2000 also, you do not have to pay the price in-full, you can pay it in monthly installments
[quote=EwingKaty]Hello,
I am a volunteer braille transcriber and am just completing the textbook course using EDIT-PC. I am considering buying Braille2000 and want to be sure I am ordering the correct version. There is the Basic Edition for $359, Direct Entry Edition for $619, and Document Processing Edition for $949. I’m guessing that what I need is the Direct Entry Edition. Can you give me advice on this, or know who I should be asking about this?
Thank you
Katy Ewing[/quote]Dont worry, i have braille2000 also, you do not have to pay the price in-full, you can pay it in monthly installments
[quote=EwingKaty]Hello,
I am a volunteer braille transcriber and am just completing the textbook course using EDIT-PC. I am considering buying Braille2000 and want to be sure I am ordering the correct version. There is the Basic Edition for $359, Direct Entry Edition for $619, and Document Processing Edition for $949. I’m guessing that what I need is the Direct Entry Edition. Can you give me advice on this, or know who I should be asking about this?
Thank you
Katy Ewing[/quote]Thanks Dorothy. Your reply, as always, was complete. And I remembered everything correctly from years ago. However, I do feel that section 33a is poorly written and should be clarified. New examples should also be written. As it is at present it reads “When the ink-print text … show(s) labeled statements … in NON-REGULAR type form, the body … etc. etc … but the labels themselves must be transcribed as though they were entirely capitalized”
This seems to limit the double cap situation to those situations where the text is in non-regular type, and in fact there are no examples showing a labeled statement in regular type. Of course the “Intro to Braille Mathematics” doesn’t add any clarification, as it doesn’t go beyond what is in the code.
I remembered what my teacher taught me back in the 60s, and it agrees with everything you answered, but I think someone should revisit the code.
bt
The label of a labeled statement is the identifying word. It must be fully capitalized in braille regardless of the print style used. It doesn’t matter if the following text is in regular or non-regular type.
Even though it is not specified in the Code, it is recommended that a labeled statement follow the format for formal proofs. A labeled statement would thus be preceded and followed by a blank line. If there are two Postulates in a row in print, there would be a blank line between them.
Rule V §33 gives examples of labels used in labeled statements, including “postulate”. But if the label of the statement is expanded, it is still the label. You would follow the same guidelines as for that of a one word label.
Does that help? Let me know if I’ve been too vague. Dorothy
Since these are defined as acronyms, they would be treated as the abbreviations that they are, according to Nemeth Code Rule VIII
You are allowed to give only every other value on the axes if that allows you to fit the graph on the page. Or you could label all of the values but with alternate ones on the line below with a lead line connecting the value to its grid mark. Your example looks like you need most of the grid that is shown.
Braille Formats says an unspaced tn symbol must follow the note. I would not leave a space between the closing bold indicator and the closing TN symbol, just as I wouldn’t leave a space between a punctuation mark and a closing tn symbol. I realize it looks funny, but is there justification for leaving a space? I am asking and I’m open to argument.
You want to order the Document Processing Edition…it enables you to use the most features.
Cindi
edited by cindilaurent on 12/7/2009Rule XXI §156b shows the construction of this double shaft arrow with arrowhead on either end.
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Oh gosh. It has been pointed out to me by someone with a lot more brains that the list of music transcribers is posted right here on this website! Go to the home page, click on Resources, Connections. Scroll down and click on the link to music transcbers.
–Joanna
I don’t understand completely what you have there. When you say the brochure is already translated into Spanish are you saying that this brochure is already in Spanish braille? In the United States, foreign language braille is done according to BANA (Braille Authority of North America). Those rules are published in the NBA Interim Manual for Foreign Language Braille Transcribing, available ONLY from NBA. Please contact NBA to obtain a copy if you do not have one
Foreign language braille (including Spanish) is NOT contracted, but uses the braille symbols assigned to it for accented letters. It’s all in the manual. The accented letter symbols are listed in a Special Symbols page as in any other textbook transcription. This also applies to the Spanish inverted question and exaclamation marks.
Sometimes there is confusion between the braille rules of the foreign country itself. Braille as done in Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico, or any other Spanish speaking country will be done according to the braille rules of that country, which are not uniform and vary. Braille in Spain is not always the same as braille in Mexico, for instance. In the United States we use BANA rules because it is not possible to decide WHICH Spanish braille rules to apply. Please see the Winter 2008-2009 issue of the NBA Bulletin for an article on this topic.
The Spanish braille you have (or will transcribe) should be uncontracted with symbols assigned to accented letters according to the Interim Manual.
Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
–Joanna
