[BlindTlk] what the transcribers won't use

[David Andrews]

There are rules for formatting tables in Braille. I think there are 
several approaches -- so others have gone before you.

Dave

At 10:25 PM 2/7/2023, Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk wrote:
>Sometimes it's useful to make tables in braille and these tables go way
>beyond a 42 character line length.  Case in point, for Business
>administration students Accounting has its Adjusted Trial Balance Tables.
>Those have 12 columns in them so no way are they about to fit on a single
>page.
>The way around this one I figured out works so long as the longest entry
>in all columns does not go over 42 characters using grade 2 or grade 3
>braille as necessary.
>Each page gets one or more column headings and columns that will fit on
>it.  The top of the page gets the column headings each followed by two
>numbers.  The first is the number of the page in that column and the
>second is the total number of pages in that column.
>The first page in the table is a key giving column headings to follow.
>All of it is secured together to protect against loss.
>Too often in my earlier life I had to come up with unorthodox solutions
>that worked for me in the context of using braille.  This is one of those
>and anyone using it that runs into questions or potential or actual
>problems with it I'll help where possible.
>In the information science field systems analysis has cloud diagrams with
>all manner of strange shapes on them and I didn't end up coming up with
>anything I thought satisfactory to handle those strange shapes and
>effectively representing communicating text had been written inside those
>shapes.
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>Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
>defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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