[duxuser] Re: new braille symbols
- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:30:10 -0000
The lettersign [semicolon, oddly enough] is dots 5-6, not dots 4-5.
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From: "Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press" <brailleit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:45 AM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: new braille symbols
Aloha Jean,
Wouldn't the semi-colon produce the dots 4-5 that you are looking for?
It's also a letter sign, so that could also produce it.
Betsy
At 09:34 AM 2/9/2008, you wrote:
>With the release of the BANA Code Updates for literary and textbook
>formats that were just released and which took effect on January 1,
>there are new symbols for things like copyright, trademark and
>registered. Dots 4-5 "c", "t", and "r" respectively. Will these
>codes be added to the next release of DBT?
>
>Also, how are rule changes encorporated? Will DBT wait until the
>entire code is revised, or do they build in changes as they are
>approved? I'm thinking here of the new rule in literary English
>braille to not insert an apostrophe in plural numbers,
>abbreviations, etc., and to use the termination indicator instead if
>changing from an uppercase abbreviation to a lowercase plural "s".
>
>Is there any way to create the new symbols for copyright, trademark
>and registered in simbraille in Word? I can't think of what might
>create the dot 4-5 part.
>
>Jean
>
> "Stressed" spelled backward is "desserts"
>
>
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