[NFB-Braille-Discussion] UEB indicators

[Brown, Debbie]

About Jen's confusion about the bold indicator:  One of the basic concepts of UEB is that each braille sign is composed of a root plus possibly one or more prefixes.  Prefixes are all of the righthand characters (the octave sings if you are a braille music user) plus the number indicator (dots 3456).  By this rule, the final character could not be dot 5.  All of the typeform indicators work the same way, with dot 2 for word indicators, dots 23 for letter indicators, and dots 2356 for passage indicators.  The way I keep them straight is that dots 45 is the bold indicator (it looks a little like "b" for "bold"); dots 46 is italic (like the old braille italic sign); dots 456 is underline (like the old computer braille code underscore indicator).  

Debbie Brown


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Subject: [NFB-Braille-Discussion] I'm Kind of Excited #2

Hi guys,

Do you know where I can buy the large envelopes for mailing materials for the course? Thanks!

Course update - I completed Exercise Two, my first assignment. It was a lot harder than I thought, due to UEB, but I got through it in about two hours. I'm sure I made mistakes, but that's okay because if I was perfect, I wouldn't need to be in the course. I plan to spend the time waiting for an instructor practicing the drills for Lesson Two. I decided to start with the exercise and then go back and do the drills so I could really see where I needed work. I finally figured out, while doing the drills yesterday, the right dot combination for the boldface indicator - it's dots 4-5 and dot 2, not dots 4-5 and dot 5. Which means I mixed up the running head for the whole exercise. Darn it. But I got the centering and margins right.

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