[nabs-l] Braille for accented letters

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
This is kind of a sticky subject. As an Opera singer I am given a multitude 
of Accented letters in my music, but I cheat a little because I often know 
what the word is supposed to be, so the accent isn't a big surprise. Also, 
the transcriber often times puts the accents in the special symbols section.
But do you have the English Braille American Edition Revised 2002?

http://jjkvc.org/Documents/English%20Braille%20-%20American%20Edition.pdf

In Appendix B you will find all of the braille signs for accented letters 
and these are what the braille transcriber uses.
The grave and umlaut are over the critical letters.  For French grave it's 
dots 2346 over the E and 12356 over the A and 23456 over the U.
The Italian is the same with the addition of I which is 34 and O which is 
346.   German umlaut over the U is 1256; over the A 345; and over the O 246. 
It is NOT simple.

I'd make a cheetsheet if I were you.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Mauricio Almeida
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 11:01 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille for accented letters

greetings,


while i am a fluent portuguese speaker, we only learn grid one in brazil, 
and I bet the accented braille is different for italian.
that being said, if you find any resource, please let me know as this is 
definitely something good to have.

best regards,

Mauricio ALmeida
Vice president: Michigan association of blind students
On Oct 19, 2012, at 5:51 PM, minh ha <minh.ha927 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if any of you know of a resource that gives you the
> braille for accented letters? I'm taking Italian and would like to
> learn what the braille is for letters such as a grave, e grave, i
> grave, etc. Any help would be much appreciated. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Minh
>
>
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