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Hi Joanna,
Thank you so much for your help with this. I'm sorry to take so long to reply, but I was having trouble getting signed in. Thanks again for your help.
Keitha
edited by kmartin51 on 1/15/2010I also assumed a number should not extend past two coordinates, but Dorothy said to explain this on the SS page:
[simbraille]r[/simbraille] ordinary coordinate, aligned with the first digit of the number to which it pertains
The Nemeth Code says that when there is doubt as to whether or not a construction is an abbreviation, it must be treated as if it were not an abbreviation. So in this case, I would use a letter indicator on the A, but no numeric indicator on the 100. Rule II §11d says the numeric indicator must not be used after a hyphen if the hyphen follows a letter.
Yes, you would use braille symbols to create a number line in a Grade 6 textbook. However, your braille is incorrect. The scale mark and the first digit of its numeric label should be aligned. If the label is a fraction, the opening fraction indicator should be aligned with the scale mark. Do not divide the components of a fraction between lines. Since there appears to be no distinctive marker (such as a solid circle) in the print, there should be none in braille. Because there is no distinctive marker, I believe I would put the fractional value 12/16 below the number line where the other values are. If for some reason this value needs to be above the line, it should be aligned the same as those below the line. All of the components of the number line must be listed on the Special Symbols page
A long number line may be divided between braille lines if no other method will allow it to be contained on one line. A scale mark is the first thing on the runover line and is indented 2 cells to the right of the beginning of the original line. So if your number line starts in cell 1, the scale mark of the runover line will be in cell 3.
I couldn't get the braille font to align when I put it directly into this message, so I have attached a word document to demonstrate my points.
edited by dworthing on 11/10/2009Hi Jade,
I have referred your question to Dorothy Worthington, who is our mathematics specialist.
BettyThe Code says that the termination indicator must not be used when the radical sign occurs without a radicand. If there is no vinculum, you would just show what is actually in print: the index of radical symbol, the index number, and the radical sign, as follows.
[braille],! SYMBOL <N> 9DICATES AN ;NTH ROOT4
Add the number and a dot 3 after the asterisk. See paragraph 18.3 in Music Braille Code. (Don't ask me why that is under nuances!)
LarryHi,
The braille page break function in Braille2000 can be tricky to use until you get used to it. It is much easier to show than to explain. Please post your .abt file here WITHOUT the page breaks you are trying to insert. Please describe exactly where you want the page break(s) to be. I can then send you a step-by-step to get the breaks feature to behave the way you want it to.
--Joanna
I'm not sure I'm understanding what your question is. I will attempt to answer it, and you let me know if I have missed the mark.
[braille]#15 in +25 in .k #40 in
abbreviations must be spaced away from the associated number and from operation signs. So there is a space on both sides of "in"no spaces need be inserted when words represent the values to be added/subtracted/etc.
[braille]=ty-two+forty-two .k eighty-f\r
In the example with a combination of numbers and words there should be a space between the number and the word that follows it, but no space between either the word or the digit which comes before or after the operation sign.[braille]bin>y #1011 .k #1 eight+0 fours+1 two+1 "o
no contractions in words that touch operation signs or those that precede or follow a comparison sign
edited by dworthing on 11/3/2009Braille Formats says that row headings (the first column) must begin in cell 1. Since stem-and-leaf plot format is based on table format, I would interpret this to mean that the plots should start in cell 1 (both the "key" and the first column heading (in your case, the word "Stem"). My opinion: I would transcribe your example page as you did in your Braille Example 1.
Hi Keitha,
Excellent question and thanks for the very helpful example. The entry words are English, and they are brailled in English with contractions. These entry words will also be the guide words on line 25, again fully contracted.
The Spanish will be Spanish with the special accented letters and so on according to the Interim Manual. The print sets off the Spanish entry word with brackets. Follow print and use braille brackets as well. This arrangement is enough of a pattern for the reader to get the idea. The reader will also have seen the glossary in English and so will easily recognize that this next glossary is Spanish. And the reader will no doubt have noticed by now, as we all have, that these translated glossaries in non-foreign language textbooks are now quite common.
Don't forget to list the Spanish accented letters and any Spanish puncutation that may occur as special symbols.
--Joanna
The English letter indicator is needed in all instances you have shown except for the V (if it is a variable). The other letters are all single letter abbreviations which require the ELI (even those with squares or cubes attached)
BANA has established guidelines for brailling business cards. The following quote is taken from these guidelines found on the BANA website.
[quote=]Strategies for Brailling the E-mail Address
An e-mail address should be brailled according to the Computer Braille Code
(CBC). The opening and closing CBC indicators can be omitted if their use will
extend the e-mail address onto a new line. When an e-mail address must be
divided over two lines, try to divide it after the at sign or after a period. Do not
insert hyphens or continuation indicators to show that the e-mail address has
been divided. Begin the second line of the e-mail address in cell 2. An e-mail
address should never be written in contracted braille.[/quote]
