[Blindmath] braille code changes and nemeth

[Susan Jolly]

Yes some of the changes in UEB make the literary code more flexible and more
modern. Most of these useful changes were accomplished simply by
eliminating a few contractions such as the two that use dot 6 in the
interior of a word. However many of the other changes which were not
required by the elimination of contractions add complexity to the
translation rules. One example is that the caps indicator for a word is
terminated by any character that isn't a letter but the new caps indicator
for a passage is only terminated by the new caps termination indicator after
the end of the passage.

It probably won't be that hard for a braille reader to learn to read UEB
braille without too much trouble. But writing correct braille that follows
all the new UEB rules will probably be a lot harder. One of the supposed
positive features of UEB is that it can be backtranslated automatically.
But this is only true if the braille doesn't have any errors.

I'll be interested what people think about UEB once they've used it for a
while on a variety of materials. I've already read comments by people who 
have had trouble memorizing all the new symbols for punctuation marks.

SusanJ