[duxuser] Re: How-to transcribe greater-than or equal to
- From: "Bernard Knight" <bknight@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:30:12 -0000
Good morning Catherine,
I totally agree with you something should be done with regards these kind of
symbols.
This week I had the word "@tractive" to deal with. I used dot 4 dots 2346
followed by an explanatory note.
If these print symbols are going to be used we really do need some rules and
regulations from BAUK and BANA etc to ensure consistency and avoid the use
of lots of explanatory notes.
Best wishes,
Bernard Knight
bknight@xxxxxxxxxxx
Louis Braille was born on 4 January 1809 and died 6 January 1852.
No one man has done more for Blind people than Louis Braille.
Thank you Louis!
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From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "duxuser-freelists.org" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 8:51 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: How-to transcribe greater-than or equal to
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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