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Thanks to Wendy B. and the agency she works for who gave us this solution! See the attachment.
Cindi
You would list each symbol separately and in braille order.
__ blue bullet
__ green bullet
(put the dot configurations in the __ above).
Cindi
Could you please send your braille - to show us what you are doing (whether you like it or not!). Thanks!
Cindi
First of all, I'm assuming the color has meaning. If not, just use the bullet symbol and ignore the color. The margins (if the bullets represent different levels of subentries) will distinguish them fine.Since the bullet is a symbol - I would suggest that a transcriber-defined symbol be used. You really can't use typeform indicators and you can't combine the bullet symbol with something else. You could use the transcriber defined shape indicator (dot 4, ed and then gr for green). That would at least keep the colored bullets all the same basic symbol.CindiLynette is correct...and I apologize for the delay in responding. I am standing in for Julie for a bit and I was out of town and could not get to my code books to double check.
Cindi
It is incorrect to combine pages 97-99. What that would imply is that there is no text on print pages 97 and 98 - which is not the case. Your proofreader is correct.
I would suggest you put a TN after the statement "Go to the next page to finish item 2." that says something like: Blank lines for answers which appear on print pages 98 and 99 are not reproduced.
Then combine print pages 98 and 99 with pages 100 (98-100).
Cindi
Yes, although I am not going to say that it will ALWAYS work 🙂 It does sound right though - and if that helps you remember how they are used then that is what matters.
Cindi
See UEB 5.7.2. What you are really doing is ensuring that a letters sequence is not incorrectly read as a word in braille. So with Hm you aren't uncontracting the word, you are making sure that the letter sequence Hm is not read in braille as the word Him. For that purpose, the grade 1 symbol indicator is sufficient and takes less space. This applies to CD, LLC, the al in al dente, and so on.
Does that help?
Cindi
According to UEB 10.6.4, the ea contraction should be used when it is preceded and followed by letters. It can be used in shippingmadeeasy.com - which seems weird as you could not use it in the word easy with spaces on either side of it. But as you noted, it IS used in speakeasy... 🙂
Cindi
Essentially, it comes down to the fact that shapes around words in non-technical material is really just emphasis. As such, the typeform indicators are a better choice.
There is also the issue of what to do when there is more than a single letter sequence enlosed within a shape - and the typeform indicators are set up to handle that.
Cindi
Formats does not address this. You have a couple of options.
- Use a 1-5, 3-5 nested list and repeat the date in question. So under the US Events (which would be 1-5) you would have two entries that begin with 1776.
- Use either emphasis or grouping indicators. In this case, since there is no bold in this section, you could put the World Events in bold. That means your whole timeline would be 1-5, 3-5. The 1776 would be in cell 1 with each event in 3-5 and the World Event enclosed in grouping indicators or enclosed in the bold passage/terminator. When using emphasis, it is imperative that you first check the entire selection and be sure you use something that is not in the print text (in this case, you couldn't use italics because there are italics within the timeline).
If you have further questions, please ask!
Cindi
There are no rules that cover this. I would say to braille it as is...follow print as closely as possible.
Sorry I can't be of more help with this!
Cindi
