[Ohio-talk] Listing of newest changes to the Braille code

[Sammons, Elizabeth]

Colleagues,
For your convenience, I've excerpted the below from today's sending from National Braille Press. Please feel free to keep or share as a reference, and the website if you want more is:

http://nationalbraillepress.wordpress.com/
Here is an overview of what UEB will mean for you:
§  Letters and numbers will be the same as those used now, and only nine of the 189 current contractions will not be used: ally, ation, ble, by, com, dd, into, o'clock, to.
§  Some contraction rules will be modified, and the words "and", "the", "of", "for", and "with" will no longer be joined together in braille.
§  Most punctuation will stay the same. The period will be used no matter where the character appears in print - at the end of a sentence, in a website address, or as a decimal point. Other punctuation, like the parenthesis, will change to reflect what is seen in print (two different symbols for open and closing parentheses).
§  Rules around emphasis will be more like print. For example, emphasis indicators for underlining will be unique from italics.
§  Current formatting guidelines will be modified slightly to accommodate new braille symbols, but any regarding placement or spacing of a page will not be effected.
Unified English Braille was created in the early 1990s with the intent to unify English-speaking countries under the same braille system and was designed to retain a significant portion of what is the current literary code.

An FAQ on the BANA website provides more details about the changes: www.brailleauthority.org<http://www.brailleauthority.org/>




Best regards,
Elizabeth S.
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