Question:
In UEB, arrows appear as grade 1 indicator, ou sign, letter o for right arrow.
Sometimes the grade 1 indicator is absent. Can you clarify which is correct?
Answer:
Thanks for your interesting question about arrows.
You are right, sometimes they do appear with the grade 1 indicator and
sometimes not. The reason is that the arrow indicator (dots 1256) must always
be in grade 1 mode (otherwise, as you said, it is the OU sign).
So, if you were just writing a sentence such as:
Choose File → Open to open an existing file.
(Braille):
,*oose ,file ;\o ,op5 to op5 an exi/+ file4
(Unicode braille:)
⠠⠡⠕⠕⠎⠑⠀⠠⠋⠊⠇⠑⠀⠰⠳⠕⠀⠠⠕⠏⠢⠀ ...
The above is in contracted (grade 2), so the arrow indicator must have a grade
1 sign before it.
Incidentally, the fact that "ouo" is not a word is irrelevant, I could write it
if I wanted:
The letters he had left were ouo.
Here's an example in a grade 1 passage (so everything is in grade 1 mode):
A+B → AB
(Braille):
;;;,a"6,b \o ,,ab;'
(Unicode braille:)
⠰⠰⠰⠠⠁⠐⠖⠠⠃⠀⠳⠕⠀⠠⠠⠁⠃⠰⠄
I have used a grade 1 passage here following the UKAAF guidelines. There are
several ways to write this expression.
I trust this helps.
With best regards,
James.
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