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The heading here is treated as any other heading--it can't be by itself on line 25. The heading would have to be moved to the next braille page and of course that would move the entire note.
--Joanna
On 3. in attached file how is the following emphasis brailled:
w-controlled vowel
edited by Josh on 8/27/2014To any interested readers:
We resolved this in a phone conversation yesterday and here is what we decided:
1. The TEXTING is handled differently than the IM's in print and that will be done in braille too. The IM's are brailled as printed, as a dialog in 1-3 with a blank line before and after. We noted that the IM's are not in double caps and the speakers are shown in the manner of a dialog.
2. The TEXTING is brailled with normal capitalization and is boxed. The occasional narrator comments in lower case is treated as embedded in the texting and enclosed in parenthese. A TN precedes the affected exchange that says non-texting words are enclosed in parentheses in the follow texting exchange.Double caps are NOT a font attribute and are extremely undesirable in a protracted passage such as this. It was decided NOT to add a font attitribute not present in print and not necessary to understand the material.
The usage of boxes to enclose texting and the fact that the texting is printed in double caps is explained in a TN, probably on the TN page, since this occurs throughout the book. We also noted that the term "texting" must be carefully and consistently used, rather than "text" because text typically refers to the actual text of the book.
Comments from other readers are always welcome.
--Joanna
The pages in the file I sent do illustrate the different types of message text. I am attaching the same three pages but will circle the instances I am referring to. These are the broad examples of what is shown in the rest of the book.
On the bottom of the first page, you will see that there are two types. The first is displayed and has angle brackets. Right under that is a line with regular text in the middle of two exchanges. That is where the biggest problem lies and why I said that boxes won’t work. If we are using boxes to set off all of the electronic messages, the embedded regular text in this line would be a problem.
