[Blindmath] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Approves Seven Updates to the Nemeth Code

[David Andrews]

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>Press Release
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>June 22, 2015
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>For Immediate Release
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>Contact: Jennifer Dunnam, Chair
>Braille Authority of North America
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>BANA Approves Seven Updates to the Nemeth Code
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) 
>has approved seven updates to the Nemeth Code. 
>All seven are effective immediately. Details of 
>the approved updates are posted on the 
>Mathematics and Science page of the BANA website 
>at 
><http://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30489975/www.brailleauthority.org?p=eyJzIjoiN0FlNjBiQmpxc1E3NV9kZWNvcGNaVVpHVEJ3IiwidiI6MSwicCI6IntcInVcIjozMDQ4OTk3NSxcInZcIjoxLFwidXJsXCI6XCJodHRwOlxcXC9cXFwvd3d3LmJyYWlsbGVhdXRob3JpdHkub3JnXFxcL21hdGhzY2llbmNlXFxcL21hdGgtc2NpZW5jZS5odG1sI3VwZGF0ZXNcXFwvXCIsXCJpZFwiOlwiZmViZmUwM2EwM2ZiNDFkOGE5ZDE2NmRlZWQ4NWRlYmZcIixcInVybF9pZHNcIjpbXCJlMDVjNGFlZWIxOWFlNTJhZGE0OGMzNTQ4MThkZjk2MTY4YzBkMWI0XCJdfSJ9>http://www.brailleauthority.org/mathscience/math-science.html#updates/. 
>The seven rulings are summarized below.
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>Nemeth Code Update to Orientation §4c: Technical and Non-Technical Texts
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>BANA recommends that a transcriber’s note be 
>inserted on the Transcriber’s Notes page of 
>any braille volume containing tactile graphics. 
>This transcriber’s note should indicate that 
>the graphics were produced in accordance with 
>the Guidelines for Tactile Graphics, 2010. 
>Details of this update are available at the above link on the BANA website.
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>Nemeth Code Update to Rule IV §26: Use of the English Letter Indicator
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>BANA has ruled that in uncontracted braille, the 
>English Letter Indicator is used or not used 
>according to the rules of the Nemeth Code. 
>Insert the phrase “in contracted and/or 
>uncontracted braille” to the existing language 
>on page 29 in the Nemeth Code book. The complete 
>updated Rule IV §26 is provided at the above link on the BANA website.
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>Nemeth Code Update to Rule XVII §119: Function Names and Their Abbreviations
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>BANA has approved a correction to the 2007 
>Nemeth Update because a fraction indicator does 
>not require an empty cell following it. This 
>correction removes the space following the 
>fraction in Example (7) on page 122 in the 
>Nemeth Code book. The complete correction is 
>available at the above link on the BANA website.
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>Nemeth Code Update to Rule XIX §134: Signs and Symbols of Operation
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>This update adds the Minus Followed by Minus 
>Symbol. When two minus signs follow one another 
>in an expression, a multipurpose indicator is 
>inserted to indicate that they are not 
>compounded vertically. BANA has approved the 
>“minus followed by minus” symbol, -"- (3-6, 
>5, 3-6). The details of this update are posted 
>at the above link on the BANA website.
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>Nemeth Code Update to Rule XXII: Miscellaneous Signs and Symbols
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>This update adds the Per Mille Symbol, ‰, 
>meaning “per thousand” to the Nemethh Code. 
>This symbol is based on the percent sign (per 
>hundred). Details of this update are provided at 
>the above link on the BANA website.
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>Nemeth Code Update to Rule XXIV §184: Spatial Arrangements
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>This update rules that in a system of equations 
>preceded by an enlarged grouping sign, the 
>numeric indicator is not required before the 
>first numeric character in the equations. The 
>following statement is added to the end of the 
>paragraph on page 183 in the Nemeth Code book: 
>“The numeric indicator is not required before 
>the first numeric character in the 
>expressions.” The complete update is available 
>at the above link on the BANA website.
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>Nemeth Code Update to Rule VIII §54: Spacing with Abbreviations
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>BANA has ruled that for consistency in the 
>presentation of abbreviations in technical 
>material, when a system of equations is preceded 
>by an enlarged grouping sign, the numeric 
>indicator is not required before the first 
>numeric character in the equations. The 
>following statement is to be added to the end of 
>the paragraph on page 183 of the Nemeth Code 
>book: “If the abbreviation is preceded by a 
>cancellation indicator and followed by a 
>terminator, the required spaces come before the 
>cancellation indicator and after the terminator.”
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>The complete update is provided at the above link on the BANA website.Â
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>NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on 
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         David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail:  dandrews at visi.com or david.andrews at nfbnet.org
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