Chris Clemens
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You would have to do these fractions spatially. I looked at your linear version and even knowing what it is supposed to be it would be difficult to decipher.
I can give you my opinion: I would braille those sections as narrative rather than directions, but the reasons you stated. They appear to be part of the explanation.
Oops, one more question, Betty: what is the correct Swell Braille font size to use?
Thanks again
PeggyThanks, Betty. I had gotten the (apparently, mis-) information about using braille29 for microcapsule paper from the ATPC tutorial disk...perhaps I misconstrued it? Your help is greatly appreciated!
PeggyThe braille 29 font is used to create tactile graphics that are embossed using the Tiger embosser.
The font that is recommended for use with microcapsule paper (sometimes called swell paper), is available as a free download from the Duxbury Systems website. Look under the Products tab, then under Freeware, then under Duxbury Braille TrueType Fonts Download. The name of the font is Swell Braille.
As with any other font, it can be used with various software programs, including Word, CorelDRAW, and Adobe Illustrator.Betty
I'm not sure what your integral looks like. I have attached a doc with 2 different presentations. In either case, the lower limit is brailled first.
If you have an actual line segment in the print text that is labeled on either end with C and D, you should draw the line segment. In tactile drawings, upper case letter labels do not require a letter indicator, only a cap sign. If the labels are lower case, then an English Letter Indicator is required.
This situation does not appear to be covered in the rules dealing with typeform indicators. If the whole expression in parentheses is of a different typeform, you would enclose the parenthesis mark within the typeform indicators. The part of the rule that confuses us on this is that a typeform indicator is supposed to be preceded and followed by a space. When only the ending word(s) are emphasized, my advisors suggest that the indicator should be followed unspaced by the closing parenthesis.
A rule update dealing with unspaced number/letter or letter/number abbreviations has been posted on BANA's website. If an abbreviation consists of an unspaced combination of letters and numbers, the abbreviation is treated as a mathematical expression -- each letter individually capitalized, a dot 5 inserted before a number that follows a letter, and punctuated mathematically. This would not apply to such abbreviations as BFM which do not include any numbers. If those abbreviations appear in print preceded by a dot (or period) they would have to be brailled according to the Computer Braille Code.
Hello there,
To answer your initial question, yes, you would need letter indicators for AB negative as well as for A positive. Remember, in literary braille, you do not use the mathematical symbols; You would replace the symbols with the words.Jana
You have certainly researched this thoroughly. I can't think of anything else you could have done. I think this is now a situation calling for transcriber judgment. I think some transcribers would simply omit this unkown symbol that has no print reference and I would support such a decision. On the other hand, I know there are also transcribers who would write a TN. Since you have gone to the trouble of determining that this unknown symbol appears only once, I would consider a [u]brief [/u]TN preceding that entry that says the unknown symbol after the following entry word is omitted in braille. Your choice!
--Joanna
No luck. With the help of a librarian, I looked through two Spanish and one English dictionary. We were unable to find the symbol, or anything like the symbol.
I re-reviewed the rest of the print book and did not find the symbol used anywhere else and there is no other reference to it in the print text. (Note: there are no diacritics in this print book, so it probably isn't a macron.)
Whatever the symbol is... I think it would be of limited benefit to the reader since it does not appear anywhere else in this text, no questions are asked about it, and it is not needed for the reader to answer the questions. So, I think that I should omit it. What do I need to do to indicate the omission?
