UEB "Cheat Sheet" by Darleen Bogart & Phyllis Landon, CNIB This lists the changes from English Braille American Edition (EBAE) which will be covered at the workshop. Additional symbols and indicators can be found in Rules of Unified English Braille (the Rulebook). References to the relevant sections follow the headings in square brackets. For technical materials, use Guidelines for Technical Material. Both UEB documents are available for download from www.iceb.org/ueb.html or www.brailleauthority.org Contractions Follow print spacing of words. Do not join (or "cuddle") words. Contractions no longer used in UEB: ble com dd ally ation to into by o'clock UEB Prefixes [2.1] @ ^ _ " . ; , # The following braille characters are prefixes: All other braille characters (including the space) are roots. Punctuation [7] 444 ,8s+le quotes,0 ellipsis ... 'single quotes' Parentheses and Brackets: "<r.d"> .<squ>e.> (round) [square] @<angle@> _<curly_> <angle> {curly} ,- ",- .- dash — long dash underscore _ —— Capitalization Indicators [8] , ,, ,,, ,' prefix for capital letter word passage terminator Grade 1 Indicators [5] ; ;; ;;; ;' symbol word passage terminator
UEB "Cheat Sheet" by Darleen Bogart & Phyllis Landon, CNIB This lists the changes from English Braille American Edition (EBAE) which will be covered at the workshop. Additional symbols and indicators can be found in Rules of Unified English Braille (the Rulebook). References to the relevant sections follow the headings in square brackets. For technical materials, use Guidelines for Technical Material. Both UEB documents are available for download from www.iceb.org/ueb.html or www.brailleauthority.org Contractions Follow print spacing of words. Do not join (or "cuddle") words. Contractions no longer used in UEB: ble com dd ally ation to into by o'clock UEB Prefixes [2.1] The following braille characters are prefixes: @ ^ _ " . ; , # All other braille characters (including the space) are roots. Punctuation [7] ellipsis ... 444 'single quotes' ,8s+le quotes,0 Parentheses and Brackets: (round) "<r.d"> [square] .<squ>e.> <angle> @<angle@> {curly} _<curly_> dash — ,- long dash —— ",- underscore _ .- Capitalization Indicators [8] prefix for capital letter , word ,, passage ,,, terminator ,' Grade 1 Indicators [5] symbol ; word ;; passage ;;; terminator ;'
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