[duxuser] Re: DBT and the dreaded letter sign
- From: "Dave Durber" <d.durber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:55:26 -0500
Jean:
When you use the two letter abbreviations for distance, liquid and weight
measurements (whether they are measured in metric or imperial), DBT will place
a letter sign before them, regardless as to whether there is a hyphen or not.
However, if you spell one out, such as degree, following a hyphen, which is
preceded by a number, in your example,, DBT has no choice but to treat the d e
g r e e as a number because, the letters of that word are all within the first
letters of the alphabet. And, as we all know, for those of us who use English
Braille, the first ten letters of the alphabet are used as numbers, when they
are preceded by a hyphen, preceded by one or a group of those letters, preceded
by a number sign.
By the way, the two letter abbreviation for degree is "dg", without the quotes.
HTH
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
----- Original Message -----
From: Jean Menzies
To: DBT list
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 6:28 PM
Subject: [duxuser] DBT and the dreaded letter sign
With number/letter combinations separated by a hyphen, I'm wondering why DBT
sometimes adds the letter sign and sometimes not. Example:
10-cm (letter sign added.
10-degree (no letter sign.
Potentially, according to EBAE, 10-degree could initially be confused with
the "deg" first being read as numbers. But then there is a combo like 4-kg that
isn't confusing, and DBT still adds the letter sign there.
What is the DBT logic for when it adds and doesn't add letter signs with
numbers, hyphen, letters/words?
Jean
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