[nabs-l] Braille for accented letters

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
I'm not sure, as I just read the transcriber's notes before hand. The Index 
should explain more than my little excerpt. I just encounter the below 
accented letters. I've never run into o acute in Italian.
Do realize though, German throws this on its head because it uses the same 
dots for totally different things...
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: minh ha
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2012 1:21 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille for accented letters

Thanks Brandon for the document. I'm just a little confused about what
you said. I took Spanish in high school for a few years and the dots
that you described are for acute letters not grave or umlauts, unless
they're all the same? That doesn't really make sense if that is the
case because Italian uses both grave and acute letters.
Minh

On 10/20/12, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on
their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." T. E. Lawrence

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