Transcript Braille Formats 2011 Clarifying The Code

Braille Formats 2011
Advanced Formatting Techniques
CTEBVI Workshop 702
Presented by: Amanuensis Braille
Presenter: Robert Roldan
[email protected]
Introduction
• How to apply the Braille Formats Principals of
Print-to-Braille Transcription, 2011
• What to do when what you see in print isn’t
covered in the Braille Formats guidelines
• Braille examples using the new formats
guidelines
How to Apply Braille Formats
• Identify what you are looking at
• Base the format for each type of material
identified on the most difficult one in the
book
• Find the Guidelines that apply
• Adjust your decisions based on clarity
• Use guidelines that closest fit the situation
when something is not covered in the code
Pre-Formatting
• Review the front matter, back matter, and text for
material that should be transposed or placed in a
separate volume.
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Preliminary Volume
Supplementary Volume
Notes Volume
End of P pages
• Pronunciation Key
• Exercises or Test at the back of the book
• Charts, Formulas, Symbols, Abbreviations, etc. on or inside
the cover
• Repeated Cast of Characters
Sidebar
3/1 Paragraph
with no italics
Braille Format Examples
Centered heading
Bold
Highlighted Text
Technical Text
Sidebars, boxed
Icon
Cell-5 Heading
Foreign Glossary
Box
Cell-5 heading
followed by a 1/3 list
Centered heading
3/1 Paragraph
Math Symbols
Pronunciation
Key Format
Omit dot
showing division
between multiple
word entries.
Explain in TN.
Omit print
running heads
English entries in 1/5
Spanish entries in 3/5
Use foreign
language
symbols and
uncontracted
braille
Sidebar, Headings, and Bulleted Lists
Centered
heading
Cell-5 Headings
Bulleted List
Sidebar
Exercise Material
Lettered Exercise Direction
Displayed
Material
Item
Number
Lettered answer choices