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Ah. You can send it to me personally at claurent@nationalbraille.org. I understand if you prefer not to do that though 🙂
Cindi
In the end matter itself or in the end matter part of the Contents? I agree with what you said but it's hard to be concrete in an answer without seeing the print :).
Cindi
Can you send a picture of what you have? In the Formats example you attached, the 2nd page (which I think is what you are asking about) would still pull out the word Chapter. The brief contents is a separate item from the full contents so it is treated separately - although in this case, they are treated the same. On page viii the word Chapter would be at the top (cell 1), then "1 Thinking Critically..." would begin in cell 1, "What is Psychology" would begin in cell 3, and "Psychology's Roots" would begin in cell 5 with all runovers in cell 7. Does that help?
Cindi
Not seeing the whole book, take what I say with a grain of salt 🙂
Just looking at this example: the underline used for the word at the end of the sentence should be omitted...it's a blank to be filled in and those are omitted per BF. The underlining within the first sentence is, or course, retained. I would contract everything because it is about the sound. A reader knows that the contraction ar stands for the two letters....if only ONE of the letters was to be circled, that would be different... I would also say that BF addresses words enclosed in shapes (use transcriber-defined typeform indicators). In this instance, I would NOT keep the circle, I would do a TN that says, "In the answer for the first sentence, the letters ar are circled" or maybe "The first sentence is done for you; the letters ar in artist are circled."
Cindi
Without seeing your print my answer would be that if the last part of an entry word is not capitalized and there is no punctuation, then two spaces should be left between entry words and definitions. Remember that if two spaces are required for any entry, they are required for all entries.
Cindi
This is really more of a UEB literary question, but I'll answer it 🙂
Though there is no specific rule for this, a passage indicator stays in effect until it is terminated...so extra spaces would make no differ1ent. Use a passage indicator.
Cindi
There are no specific rules about this. My suggestion would be to treat the Passage and accompanying sentence as paragraphs and the numbered/lettered questions as exercise material (1-5, 3-5).
According to Formats, the notes do go at the end of the page (as you noted). You may want to check with the test producer or the person asking for the test to be brailled as to where they might want the footnotes.
Cindi
Any chance I could get a picture of this page? It is easier to answer when I can see the print...
Thanks!
Cindi
If ALL of the end matter begins with the word Appendix, then yes, it could be considered an identifier...but if any of them don't, just put the word Appendix before each entry.
I'm not new at this and sometimes the rules elude me...so you are in good company! 🙂
Cindi
I'm not sure exactly what you mean...but the rule is for when the identifier applies to all entries after the identifier (so you COULD have some prelim matter that doesn't have the identifier, then the identifier (chapter, etc) would apply to everything after that - until the end matter (which should be separated by a blank line. If this does not answer your questions, maybe send me a picture of your Contents?
Cindi
I think it would be very hard to accurately describe these pictures. A general tn stating that a person is doing sign language should suffice (as well as stating what the phrases are).
Cindi
If there really is no print page number, then you don't include one in braille. BE SURE the page number is not an implied page number though (which means there IS a page number even if it's not printed on the page)...if the next page with a number on it is page xx or page 5, then it is likely that YOUR page has an implied page number.
Cindi
