[Blindmath] BANA still considering abolishing the Nemeth braille code

[John J. Boyer]

I would suggest making your opinions known to the NFB, the hosting 
organization. As the one who had to support British maths for the 
liblouis software, I can say frrom experience that anything like it is 
far inferior to the Nemeth code and mulch more difficult to support. My 
personal opinio0n of the "unified" system is quite pungent.

As an alternative you might want to suggest adoption of the Nemeth 
Univied Braille System (NUBS). Not everyone likes it, but it is 
certainly superior to the UEBC. 
John

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 04:10:37PM -0600, Susan Jolly wrote:
> I have just recieved my copy of the Summer 2011 Bulletin of the National 
> Braille Association (NBA) which is the professional organization providing 
> continuing education to both paid and volunteer braille transcribers here 
> in the United States. The President's Message states, "At some point in the 
> near future, the braille powers-that-be will make a decision about a 
> unified braille code for the English-speaking worlds--a code that will 
> combine literary and technical transcriptions under one set of rules and 
> constructions."
> 
> Elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin, the NBA representive to the 
> Braille Authority of North America (BANA) writes that the BANA "Education 
> and Outreach committee is still reviewing the possibility of a universal 
> code." Note that the next meeting of BANA will be held November 3-6, 2011 
> and will be hosted in the Baltimore area by the NFB.
> 
> If you believe as I do that the BAUK-like representation of maths in the 
> current proposals for a unified code are significantly inferior to the 
> Nemeth code's representation of mathematics, you might want to take action 
> now.
> 
> Wouldn't it be ironic if the US were to abolish the use of the Nemeth code 
> just as it is being widely adopted in countries such as India and Indonesia 
> which have larger populations of braille users?
> 
> Sincerely,
> SusanJ 
> 
> 
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