[duxuser] Re: How-to transcribe greater-than or equal to
- From: Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "duxuser-freelists.org" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:51:55 -0500 (EST)
This has been a problem with the Duxbury software for a long time. There
has been no definitive decision on what to do with phrases like the
young@heart senior center, or when some joker decides that that the
greater-than/less-than sign makes a visually appealing print parenthesis.
Until a way is found to integrate computer code symbols into non-computer
code text, I would choose a symbol (probably 46, 13 for the equals sign
456, 126 and 456, 345 for the greater-than and less-than signs. I would
make note of these symbols on a special symbols page. If they occur, I
would do the same for plus and minus signs. DotsPlus and a very old
program called PCBRAILLE include symbols lists that are easily recognized
and can be used for these inconveninet signs. If right and left braces { }
keep turning up, I would substitute rights and left brackets [ ] because
these symbols do translate. To have the word "plus appear in the phrase
"a-plus" or in a company name such as "plus mark" when the printed text
clearly shows a plus sign is actually inaccurate braille. It's about time
this issue was addressed together with a list of symbols to be used in
literary braille.
Catherine
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