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Hi,
The braille page break function in Braille2000 can be tricky to use until you get used to it. It is much easier to show than to explain. Please post your .abt file here WITHOUT the page breaks you are trying to insert. Please describe exactly where you want the page break(s) to be. I can then send you a step-by-step to get the breaks feature to behave the way you want it to.
–Joanna
I’m not sure I’m understanding what your question is. I will attempt to answer it, and you let me know if I have missed the mark.
[braille]#15 in +25 in .k #40 in
abbreviations must be spaced away from the associated number and from operation signs. So there is a space on both sides of “in”no spaces need be inserted when words represent the values to be added/subtracted/etc.
[braille]=ty-two+forty-two .k eighty-f\r
In the example with a combination of numbers and words there should be a space between the number and the word that follows it, but no space between either the word or the digit which comes before or after the operation sign.[braille]bin>y #1011 .k #1 eight+0 fours+1 two+1 “o
no contractions in words that touch operation signs or those that precede or follow a comparison sign
edited by dworthing on 11/3/2009Braille Formats says that row headings (the first column) must begin in cell 1. Since stem-and-leaf plot format is based on table format, I would interpret this to mean that the plots should start in cell 1 (both the “key” and the first column heading (in your case, the word “Stem”). My opinion: I would transcribe your example page as you did in your Braille Example 1.
Hi Keitha,
Excellent question and thanks for the very helpful example. The entry words are English, and they are brailled in English with contractions. These entry words will also be the guide words on line 25, again fully contracted.
The Spanish will be Spanish with the special accented letters and so on according to the Interim Manual. The print sets off the Spanish entry word with brackets. Follow print and use braille brackets as well. This arrangement is enough of a pattern for the reader to get the idea. The reader will also have seen the glossary in English and so will easily recognize that this next glossary is Spanish. And the reader will no doubt have noticed by now, as we all have, that these translated glossaries in non-foreign language textbooks are now quite common.
Don’t forget to list the Spanish accented letters and any Spanish puncutation that may occur as special symbols.
–Joanna
The English letter indicator is needed in all instances you have shown except for the V (if it is a variable). The other letters are all single letter abbreviations which require the ELI (even those with squares or cubes attached)
Dan,
That is exactly what I do. i start a new parallel for the 2nd ending.
Yes, please put a note in your MBC97 to raise the question when we work on the new edition.
LarryI don’t know of any reason why there would be a space between the C and the following plus sign. In the simbraille for the example above Example 6, there is an almost identical line (K = …) that presents the expression with no spaces. I think it is probably just a typo.
I am assuming that you are going to Formats to get a rule that applies to this situation, although this isn’t truly a free-standing punctuation mark. Regardless of how you present it, it will not be easily recognizable as a question mark, will it? But I can’t think of a solution better than the one you have chosen. Formats suggestion is to use words to name a punctuation mark shown in unusual configuration. If you choose to do that, a tn could explain what that second question mark is.
It is not necessary to indicate that the ordinal ending is in a raised position. With a single letter ordinal, such as nth, you must include a letter indicator as if the ordinal is not present.
That is correct. The dot 5 is not a numeric symbol so the numeric indicator would be required if guide dots are used, or if dot 5s are used to indicate a column with no data.
Hi Tina,
Look at Section 14 on page 47. The accented letter symbols are listed by language in alphabetical order, along with rules pertaining to the specific language. Spanish is section 14.20 starting on page 104.
Is that what you’re looking for?
–Joanna
Here’s the one my teacher taught me in 1967.
In formal proofs in this volume, the format showing step-numbered “Statements” and “Reasons” in two side-by-side columns has been changed. The braille shows all statements and reasons beginning at the margin and the letter S or R following the step-number.
HTH Barbara Taffet
PS. My teacher was Helen Roberts, the original author of the Intro to Braille Mathematics. I only completed the book after she died prematurely.
Dan, I agree with you 100%. The rule is that a special octave mark is needed after any appearance of a number sign. A page turn sign that does not include a number sign is not enough of an interruption to justify adding an octave mark.
Larry
I have attached a suggestion about how to do the table, but its correctness depends on the way the table actually looks in print, and what it is trying to show.
edited by dworthing on 9/29/2009In order to make the chart accessible it is attached as a brf and as a doc file
edited by dworthing on 9/29/2009
