[ddots-l] Re: grade 2 braille
- From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:00:40 -0500
There are, in fact, contracted braille codes for Spanish and French braille,
but it's more like the use of Grade III braille interspersed into UK Grade II
Literary
Braille: something you'd see to use less paper and take less room in books such
as the bible which an individual might want to own, and have many
common words within the context the document which are used repeatedly, and
thus their unique contractions can be quickly learned...
Nick
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From: George Bell
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:17:09 +0100
Hi Ramy,
In many languages, only Grade 1 is used. Grade is simply a print character for
braille character translation, with a few
additions such as number signs.
However is some languages, in particular English for example, there are many
groups of letters in words which are quite
common. For example, coming, going, seeing, steeling, all end with the letters
i n g. And so this group of letters becomes
one cell of dots 3,4 and 6 in Grade 2 Braille.
There are also what are called "Word signs" in Grade 2 for many letters of our
alphabet, and so in braille the letter b means
but, c means can, d means do. However when you do actually mean a single
letter in Grade 2 braille, it is preceded by a letter
sign, which is dots 5 and 6 in English.
Overall, the idea is to reduce the amount of space taken up is producing pages
of braille. I've not done any tests of late wit the
new UK rules, but in general terms, Grade 2 English takes up about 15-18% less
space that Grade 1. Which in turn converts
to 85-82 pages in grade 2, compared to 100 pages of Grade 1.
George.
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Ramy Moustafa
Sent: 02 June 2006 22:51
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] grade 2 braille
hi all:
please, can anyone tell me what is the difference between the grade one and
grade 2 braille?
Cheers:
Ramy moustafa,
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