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Yes, you can use whole words as abbreviations and they should be listed in the key as in your example 2.
For me (this is NOT a rule), I always make my abbreviations as lower-cased words which (to me anyway) make it a bit easier to distinguish the abbreviation from the actual table heading. And, in the key, I would say:
[begin TN] Key to abbreviations used:
motivation Motivation to Learn the New Skill
strategies Strategies I Used to Learn This Skill [end TN]
If you used mo for Motivation to Learn the New Skill, that is a key - not an abbrevation.
Cindi
Per BF 1.9 we are to follow print for paragraphing. So yes, if the first paragraph is blocked in print, it should be blocked in braille. The only exception is if ALL of the paragraphs are blocked, they can be changed to indented paragraphs.
Cindi
No - the reference notes go at the bottom of the print page regardless of what is before/after them. They are sort of outside the flow of regular text - with the note separation line preceding them and the page change indicator following.
Cindi
The graphing calculator guidelines do not specifically address arrows within screens. After some debate among the committee, general consensus is that your transcription is correct. The biggest question was about the arrow - is it a pointing arrow or does it have some other meaning. Can that be determined by the surrounding text? The only thing it would affect is the spacing, not the dots. In the end, because there are no specific guidelines, it is really about consistency. Choose how you will represent it and then be consistent.
Cindi
Wow. Kudos for taking this on! Are you using the ligature symbol for anything? That would certainly be an option for either the upper or lower ligatures. I do think they are separate things and should be transcribed differently. You could always include a TN that says that words connected by ligature marks have spaces between them in print. The point is that they are being pronounced as one word even though they are two separate words, right?
For the words with crossed out or underlined letters: I do think showing them once without any additional marks (including ligatures) and then repeating them would be helpful for the reader. I would show the whole phrase/sentence that way for context.
As for TN's. Put one on the TN page - and then put a TN at the FIRST instance within the text...but don't repeat it every time.
Does that answer all your questions?
Cindi
See BF 16.7.1 which says "Treat multiple-marked or unmarked reference points on the same line as separate references.". There is an example there also which shows that you repeat the line number for each note. All notes still use the 1-3 margin.
Cindi
I've checked with the NBA Formats Committee and we are agreed that you should keep the BF guidelines for doing verse/prose plays and ignore the separate indentions. It would get too confusing if you tried to accommodate it.
Cindi
I like the idea you had of putting them in order at the back of the volume. That certainly would work as well!
Cindi
Normally I would say to put in a brief TN (something like "on page a13") after the Table number - but this is a LOT of references to tables on other pages! And I notice that some are for a range of tables (Tables 2-7). For sure put the table on the print pages where they occur. For the braille readers benefit, I might create a table of contents for the tables and put it at the beginning of each volume. This would be like a genre contents - so beginning on a new braille page and placed after the text contents. Then you would need a TN that says something like "Print often references tables found throughout the text. As a guide to the reader, a contents page has been created for the tables found in this volume. See braille page p3." (or whatever page it actually falls on).Ā On that transcriber-created contents page, you may have to break the tables out by braille volume. I can't see how big your text is...so I'm not sure of the exact way this would work, but it seems like there ought to be a way for the braille reader to find tables easily. Another suggestion would be to use the sequentially labeled tables format...but do a label on line 25 for EVERY table and don't put anything on the braille page after the end of the table except the label. This would allow the student to only have to look at line 25 to find the appropriate table. A TN would still be required for this format. Something like "Print often references tables found throughout the text. For ease of locating tables, a label is placed on line 25 of every braille page on which a table is found." The wording of the TN's is flexible as there is no rule for this š
Hope this helps!
Cindi
I like your idea - a nested list is a good format for this type of material.
You could also just list them in 1-3. Put Cause then an arrow then Effect. This would save space and still get the point across - Cause leads to Effect.
Cindi
Would it be possible to see what your print looks like? My initial reaction is to the do word list first and the descriptions second - regardless of how many pages it takes. Maybe include a TN that says that descriptions take __ pages. If you can't do them on facing pages, then you can't. I would not leave a blank left page (if that is the way I am reading your description above) just because the word list doesn't take two pages.
Cindi
I'm going to post this in both places you posted it.
Running footers are similar to what a Running head is. Something that gives the reader location information but is outside the regular flow of text. Guide word text - letting the reader know what is on that page - is a running footer. The sequentially numbered table labels are, in fact, running footers.
Cindi
PS - this definition is found in Appendix F inĀ Braille Formats:
running footer: a word, phrase, or number that is repeated at the bottom of more than one print page
And this definition is found in Appendix F at the back of theĀ Braille FormatsĀ book:
running footer: a word, phrase, or number that is repeated at the bottom of more than one print page
Cindi
I'm going to post this in both places you posted it.
Running footers are similar to what a Running head is. Something that gives the reader location information but is outside the regular flow of text. Guide word text - letting the reader know what is on that page - is a running footer. The sequentially numbered table labels are, in fact, running footers.
Cindi
