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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). 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 🙂
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 in 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 the Braille Formats 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
You should leave the word as it is in print - hyphenated. Put three blank spaces after the hyphen to indicate the start of a new print line.
Cindi
It appears to me that the vertical bars are just a division of the * / * / or * / * symbols showing what is iambic pentameter and what is iambic tetrameter. And wow...what a challenging assignment!
I think you have to do whatever you think would make this the most understandable. Just insert well-worded transcriber's notes explaining your format. Putting spaces in where the vertical bars appear seems to me to be a good idea. To my knowledge, there are no guidelines in other documents. I assume you've scoured the rules on IPA...that would be my first suggestion.
Cindi
I'm going to answer this one as well as I feel like this is more formats than Nemeth. 🙂
I have seen this done a couple of other times. I have a couple of suggestions. First, I would not treat the answer boxes as Nemeth rectangles. They are not mathematical in nature, they are just answer blanks. Although there is no rule against using Nemeth rectangles...that's my opinion. For the answer boxes that have drop down choices: The way I've seen this done that I liked the best was to number the answer blanks (1 _ , 2 _, 3 _ and 4 _ [numbers and underscores in UEB] in this case) and then follow the question with a list of the answer choices. Of course, you would need a TN to explain the change to format (on the TN page as this happens throughout. If you don't have a TN page, put it before the first question of each worksheet set.
1.
less than 2.5%
between 2.5% and 16%
etc
2.
not possible
reasonable
Hope this helps!
Cindi
I'm going to answer this one as well as I feel like this is more formats than Nemeth. 🙂
I have seen this done a couple of other times. I have a couple of suggestions. First, I would not treat the answer boxes as Nemeth rectangles. They are not mathematical in nature, they are just answer blanks. Although there is no rule against using Nemeth rectangles...that's my opinion. For the answer boxes that have drop down choices: The way I've seen this done that I liked the best was to number the answer blanks (1 _ , 2 _, 3 _ and 4 _ [numbers and underscores in UEB] in this case) and then follow the question with a list of the answer choices. Of course, you would need a TN to explain the change to format (on the TN page as this happens throughout. If you don't have a TN page, put it before the first question of each worksheet set.
1.
less than 2.5%
between 2.5% and 16%
etc
2.
not possible
reasonable
Hope this helps!
Cindi
I'll go ahead and answer here (and there if you have re-posted it).
I think you have to do what you have to do to make the table understood. I applaud you for accurately saying "I want to apply all the rules I can" while still dealing with the material you have. BF can't address every situation and the intent is to ensure we are all doing our best to "apply all the rules we can". Be sure to write a careful transcriber's note to explain how you are changing the print format. I suggest having someone else read it over and see if it makes sense to them.
Cindi
