Instruction Manual for Braille Transcribing Fifth Edition, 2009 Constance Risjord Literary Braille Transcriber ______________________ https://wwws.loc.gov Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Risjord, Constance. Instruction manual for Braille transcribing. -- 5th ed. / Constance Risjord. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-8444-1227-6 ISBN-10: 0-8444-1227-9 1. Braille--Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Braille--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. II. Title. HV1672.R47 2009 421'.1--dc22 2009012428 ii Contents Preface to 2009 Edition General Course Instructions ..................................................................................................... xi Purpose and Scope ................................................................................................................ xi How to Enroll ........................................................................................................................ xii Equipment ............................................................................................................................. xii Computer Program ......................................................................................................... xiii Braillewriter .................................................................................................................... xiii Slate and Stylus .............................................................................................................. xiii Use and Preparation of Drills, Reading Practices, and Exercises ......................................... xiii Drills and reading practice ............................................................................................. xiii Exercises ......................................................................................................................... xiv Braille page margins and line length .............................................................................. xiv Centering a heading ........................................................................................................ xiv Page numbering .............................................................................................................. xv Erasures .......................................................................................................................... xv Proofreading ................................................................................................................... xv Grading . ................................................................................................................................ xv Certification ........................................................................................................................... xvi Mailing Materials .................................................................................................................. xvi Mailing exercises to NFB ............................................................................................... xvi Mailing the trial manuscript ........................................................................................... xvi Lesson 1. The Braille Alphabet and Numbers 1.1 In General .................................................................................................................... 1-1 1.2 Braillewriters, Computer Braille Programs, and Braille Slates ................................... 1-1 1.3 The First Ten Letters of the Alphabet........................................................................... 1-1 Drill 1........................................................................................................................ 1-2 1.4 The Second Ten Letters of the Alphabet ...................................................................... 1-2 Drill 2........................................................................................................................ 1-2 1.5 The Last Six Letters of the Alphabet ............................................................................ 1-2 Drill 3........................................................................................................................ 1-3 1.6 Numbers ....................................................................................................................... 1-3 Drill 4 ........................................................................................................................ 1-4 Reading Practice ....................................................................................................... 1-4 Exercise .................................................................................................................................. 1-5 Lesson 2. Capitalization, Paragraphing, Punctuation, Numbers with punctuation 2.1 Capital Letters and Fully Capitalized Words................................................................ 2-1 Drill 5........................................................................................................................ 2-1 2.2 Paragraphing ................................................................................................................. 2-1 2.3 Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Comma, Semicolon, Colon ..................... 2-2 Drill 6........................................................................................................................ 2-2 2.4 Hyphen ......................................................................................................................... 2-3 Drill 7........................................................................................................................ 2-6 2.5 Dash .............................................................................................................................. 2-6 Drill 8........................................................................................................................ 2-8 2.6 Numbers with punctuation ............................................................................................ 2-8 Drill 9 ......................................................................................................................... 2-10 Reading Practice ....................................................................................................... 2-11 Exercise .................................................................................................................................. 2-12 Lesson 3. Quotation Marks, Apostrophe, Parentheses, Brackets, Adjacent Punctuation, Double (Omission) Dash, Slash 3.1 Quotation marks ........................................................................................................... 3-1 3.2 Apostrophe .................................................................................................................... 3-1 3.3 Parentheses and Brackets .............................................................................................. 3-2 3.4 Adjacent punctuation .................................................................................................... 3-2 Drill 10...................................................................................................................... 3-3 3.5 Double (Omission) Dash ............................................................................................. 3-3 3.6 Slash ............................................................................................................................. 3-4 Drill 11 ...................................................................................................................... 3-4 Reading Practice ....................................................................................................... 3-5 Exercise .................................................................................................................................. 3-6 Lesson 4. One-Cell Whole-Word Contractions, Contractions for and, for, of, the, with 4.1 Contractions in General ................................................................................................ 4-1 4.2 One-Cell Whole-Word Contractions (Alphabet Contractions)..................................... 4-1 Drill 12...................................................................................................................... 4-2 Drill 13 ...................................................................................................................... 4-3 4.3 Whole-Word Contractions for and, for, of, the, with.................................................... 4-4 Drill 14 ...................................................................................................................... 4-5 4.4 Part-Word Contractions for and, for, of, the, with ........................................................ 4-5 4.5 Rules for All Part-Word Contractions .......................................................................... 4-6 Drill 15...................................................................................................................... 4-7 Reading Practice ....................................................................................................... 4-8 Exercise .................................................................................................................................. 4-9 Lesson 5. Whole-Word Contractions for child, shall, this, which, out, still Part-Word Contractions for ch, sh, th, wh,