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I don't believe there are any rules covering your overlay process. You would follow Formats rules for the text. Here are a couple of suggestions for creating overlays. Stagger the location on the pages so that all of the plastic is not at the same level on every page. Round off the corners of each plastic application. Rounded corners make it more difficult to peel the plastic off the page. Very important -- proofread carefully before actually sticking it on the page.
In double spaced material, for every blank line required by Braille Formats insert an additional blank line. A cell 5 heading requires a blank line preceding it, so in double-spacing you would leave two blank lines before the heading.
By "book overlay" do you mean the book jacket?
If that is the case, there is no rule for transcribing a book jacket. In my experience, the book jacket is not included in the transcription. If you are required to include it, it belongs in the p-pages with material from the back cover, inside front cover, etc. with no print page number. A tn would explain its location in print.
Using or not using a running head does not affect this issue.
BF does not clearly state this principle (which we are in the process of fixing). The answer is Yes. If something ends on line 24 or 25 of a braille page that requires a blank line following it, that blank line would appear at the top of the next braille page.
In Example 1 above, the body paragraph would begin on line 2 if no running head is used and on line 3 if a running head is used.
Same for Example 2.
Cindi
This information would not be placed on the title page. The introduction is probably on one of the print pages, right? The source information could go there.
Cindi
This information would not be placed on the title page. The introduction is probably on one of the print pages, right? The source information could go there.
Cindi
Thanks to Wendy B. and the agency she works for who gave us this solution! See the attachment.
Cindi
You would list each symbol separately and in braille order.
__ blue bullet
__ green bullet
(put the dot configurations in the __ above).
Cindi
Could you please send your braille - to show us what you are doing (whether you like it or not!). Thanks!
Cindi
First of all, I'm assuming the color has meaning. If not, just use the bullet symbol and ignore the color. The margins (if the bullets represent different levels of subentries) will distinguish them fine.Since the bullet is a symbol - I would suggest that a transcriber-defined symbol be used. You really can't use typeform indicators and you can't combine the bullet symbol with something else. You could use the transcriber defined shape indicator (dot 4, ed and then gr for green). That would at least keep the colored bullets all the same basic symbol.CindiLynette is correct...and I apologize for the delay in responding. I am standing in for Julie for a bit and I was out of town and could not get to my code books to double check.
Cindi
It is incorrect to combine pages 97-99. What that would imply is that there is no text on print pages 97 and 98 - which is not the case. Your proofreader is correct.
I would suggest you put a TN after the statement "Go to the next page to finish item 2." that says something like: Blank lines for answers which appear on print pages 98 and 99 are not reproduced.
Then combine print pages 98 and 99 with pages 100 (98-100).
Cindi
Yes, although I am not going to say that it will ALWAYS work 🙂 It does sound right though - and if that helps you remember how they are used then that is what matters.
Cindi
See UEB 5.7.2. What you are really doing is ensuring that a letters sequence is not incorrectly read as a word in braille. So with Hm you aren't uncontracting the word, you are making sure that the letter sequence Hm is not read in braille as the word Him. For that purpose, the grade 1 symbol indicator is sufficient and takes less space. This applies to CD, LLC, the al in al dente, and so on.
Does that help?
Cindi
