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Rules of Unified English Braille, 2013 The Rules of Unified English Braille Second Edition 2013 Edited by Christine Simpson Published by International Council on English Braille Rules of Unified English Braille ii Copyright: Second Edition © 2013 (original © 2010), Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities Inc. and International Council on English Braille. This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non- commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94105, USA. ISBN: 978-0-9807064-6-8 CONTACT: International Council on English Braille [email protected] www.iceb.org Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities Inc. PO Box 229, Lindisfarne, Tasmania 7015 Australia [email protected] www.printdisability.org The official version of The Rules of Unified English Braille is held as a PDF file on the ICEB website. Print and braille versions of the Rulebook may be downloaded from there. Associated Document: Unified English Braille Guidelines for Technical Material (available for download from the ICEB website) Second Edition 2013 Rules of Unified English Braille iii Table of Contents Table of Contents ..............................................................................iii Foreword to the First Edition .............................................................xi Foreword to the Second Edition ...................................................... xiii Preface to the First Edition ............................................................... xv Preface to the Second Edition .......................................................... xix Acknowledgements ......................................................................... xxi About This Book ............................................................................. xxiii Section 1: Introduction ..................................................................... 1 1.1 Definition of braille ..................................................................... 1 1.2 Principles of Unified English Braille ............................................... 2 1.3 Basic signs found in other forms of English braille ......................... 3 Contractions ........................................................................................ 3 Punctuation ......................................................................................... 4 Composition signs (indicators) .............................................................. 4 General symbols................................................................................... 4 Technical subjects ................................................................................ 5 Section 2: Terminology and General Rules ........................................ 7 2.1 Terminology ............................................................................... 7 2.2 Contractions summary ................................................................ 9 2.3 Following print .......................................................................... 10 2.4 Indicators and modes ............................................................... 11 2.5 Grades of braille ....................................................................... 13 Uncontracted (grade 1) braille ............................................................ 13 Contracted (grade 2) braille ................................................................ 14 Other grades of braille ........................................................................ 15 2.6 Standing alone ......................................................................... 15 Section 3: General Symbols and Indicators .................................... 19 3.1 Ampersand @& ......................................................................... 21 3.2 Arrows \ \o \% \[ \+ ..................................................... 21 3.3 Asterisk "9 dagger @,? and double dagger @,] ..................... 21 3.4 Braille grouping indicators < > ................................................. 23 3.5 Bullet _4 ................................................................................. 24 3.6 Caret @5 .................................................................................. 24 3.7 Commercial at sign @a ............................................................. 25 3.8 Copyright ^c registered ^r and trademark ^t signs ................. 25 3.9 Crosses @,? ;x ;,x "8 .................................................... 25 3.10 Currency signs @c @e @f @l @n @s @y ........................ 26 3.11 Degrees ^j minutes 7 ' and seconds 77 ,7 ........................ 27 3.12 Ditto mark "1 .......................................................................... 28 3.13 Dot locator for "mention" .= .................................................... 28 Second Edition 2013 Rules of Unified English Braille iv 3.14 Dot locator for "use" ""= ........................................................ 29 3.15 Feet 7 ' and inches 77 ,7 .................................................. 30 3.16 Female (Venus) ^x and male (Mars) ^y signs .......................... 30 3.17 Mathematical signs: plus "6 equals "7 multiplication "8 division "/ minus "- ratio 3 proportion 33 less-than @< and greater-than @>....................................................................... 31 3.18 Music accidentals: natural #* flat #< sharp #% ....................... 32 3.19 Number sign (crosshatch, hash, pound sign) _? ........................ 33 3.20 Paragraph ^p and section ^s signs .......................................... 33 3.21 Percent sign .0 ....................................................................... 33 3.22 Shapes $ ................................................................................. 34 3.23 Space ...................................................................................... 35 3.24 Subscript 5 and superscript 9 indicators .................................... 36 3.25 Tilde (swung dash) @9 ............................................................. 36 3.26 Transcriber-defined symbols ? #? @#? ^#? _#? "#? .#? ........................................................................................ 37 3.27 Transcriber's note indicators @.< @.> ................................... 39 Section 4: Letters and Their Modifiers ............................................ 41 4.1 English alphabet ....................................................................... 41 4.2 Modifiers .................................................................................. 42 4.3 Ligatured letters ....................................................................... 46 4.4 Eng and schwa ......................................................................... 47 4.5 Greek letters ............................................................................ 48 Section 5: Grade 1 Mode ................................................................. 51 5.1 Mode indicators ........................................................................ 51 5.2 Grade 1 symbol indicator ; ....................................................... 51 5.3 Grade 1 word indicator ;; ....................................................... 52 5.4 Grade 1 passage indicator ;;; ................................................ 52 5.5 Grade 1 terminator ;' ............................................................. 53 5.6 Numeric indicator # .................................................................. 53 5.7 Grade 1 mode avoids confusion with contractions ...................... 54 5.8 Grade 1 indicators and capitalisation ......................................... 55 5.9 Choice of indicators .................................................................. 56 5.10 Optional use of the grade 1 indicator ......................................... 57 5.11 Use of grade 1 indicators in grade 1 text ................................... 57 Section 6: Numeric Mode ................................................................. 59 6.1 Numeric indicators #a #b #c #d #e #f #g #h #i #j #1 #4............................................................................ 59 6.2 Numeric mode symbols............................................................. 60 6.3 Termination of numeric mode ................................................... 61 6.4 Placement of numeric prefix with full stop (period) ..................... 61 6.5 Numeric indicators set grade 1 mode........................................ 62 Second Edition 2013 Rules of Unified English Braille v 6.6 The numeric space "a "b "c "d "e "f "g "h "i "j .......................................................................................... 63 6.7 Treatment of dates, time, coinage, etc. ...................................... 64 6.8 Spaced numeric indicator # ....................................................... 65 6.9 Numeric passage indicator ## and numeric terminator #' ......... 66 6.10 Division of a number between lines ............................................ 66 Section 7: Punctuation ................................................................... 69 7.1 General .................................................................................... 70 7.2 Dash, low line (underscore), long dash and hyphen ,- .- ",- - ................................................................................... 72 Hyphen(s) used
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