Thank you to everyone who answered my questions. Yes, I'm in the
U.S.--California, to be specific.
One more question: Magazines, newsletters, bills, and statements should
they be considered as textbooks? I didn't think they fit the category of
textbooks. Let me know if I'm wrong.
I think everything all of you have posted is helpful. I'm trying to take
George's advice and contact the producers of these materials.
Thanks again.
Terri Amateur radio call sign KF6CA
On 2/4/2017 2:00 PM, George Bell wrote:
Hi Terri,
I'm afraid you can really only put this down to either plain, bad
transcription, lack of proof reading, and/or the transcriber has not yet
converted to UEB.
It is still early days yet if you are in the States, since they were the last
major country to adopt UEB.
I can only suggest that where possible, you express your concerns to the
supplier of the braille material.
Regards,
George Bell.
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Subject: [ueb-ed] some questions
Hello,
I have been reading and writing braille since the late 1950s. I'm now learning
UEB.
I receive newsletters, statements, magazines and bills and there seems to be
differences in how they are transcribed. Here are my questions:
1. Some material has the braille paragraphs starting in cell 3, but others have
the paragraphs starting in the margin with a blank line between the paragraphs.
Aren't paragraphs supposed to begin in cell 3?
2. Some material use dots 46 to represent the dot in an URL or email address
but most material use dots 256. Isn't dots 256 the correct representation for
the dot in URLs and email addresses?
3. Sometimes the multiplication sign, dots 5 236 appears between two
dimensions. For example one magazine is describing available calendars using
the width of the paper followed by the multiplication sign then the length of
the paper. Is the multiplication sign taking the place of an x or the word by?
How should I read the mulbiplication sign when it's used between dimensions?
4. I received a newsletter which used dots 356 on its title page for the word
by. Wasn't that sign dropped in UEB?
5. A bill I received wasn't written in UEB at all. It was written in EBAE. UEB
was adopted last year, so it's odd UEB wasn't used.
I have been studying the 2013 rulebook for UEB and I'm a little confused. Thank
you for any answers you can give me.
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Terri Amateur radio call sign KF6CA
