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Lindy,
We are using the Tactile Guidelines for the project we are working on, The Common Core National Standards. We also looked at the example you are talking about and this situation is not exactly an equation because there are no comparison and computation symbols used. They are using just the words. That is why were looking for direction about this. We have received materials that are being done by an agency that are experts in this situation and when an equation was used they did not use the tactile box. The shape indicator was used. I am wondering if this is done only in a testing situation.The radical (dots 345) is a unique Nemeth braille symbol. I see no problem enclosing it, as well as the superscripted numeral 2, in cancellation indicators. Because the cancelled step is preceded by the original problem, the reader should have no trouble differentiating the termination indicator of the radical from the two closing cancellation indicators, but you could offer an explanation in a transcriber’s note to clarify. See attached.
–Lindy Walton (Committee Member)
Omission rules are covered in Rule X of the Nemeth Code. Section 57 states that a question mark with a dash beneath it is to be transcribed as a general omission symbol (dots 123456). The answer to your punctuation question can be found in Rule VI, Sec.37.iv. In your example, it is clear that the context is mathematical, therefore a punctuation indicator is required before the ending period.
–Lindy Walton (Committee Member)
