If we turn punctuation on anybody can tell and distinguish those brackets even if totally blind. It's all right. For the most part, I leave punctuation at a minimum for email but can turn it on fully with speech when needed.
E. At 01:17 PM 12/22/2006, you wrote:
Ok part of this discussion is my fault in not completely understanding the brackets. It is this bracket: { that causes the problem and not this bracket: [ For those of you who are not sighted (oh duh banging my head sorry I very very very often forget that many of you are not sighted) you won't see the brackets but I think your speech readers will do it. Anyway the short answer is I can keep doing picture descriptions with the [] symbols. This is what she said: Jamie, Anytime there is no braille symbol for punctuation found in print the symbol will appear in Braille as a written out word - like backslash or tilden or less than and greater than. That is exactly how I see it in braille - written out as a word. And, yes, it is annoying when you are reading a book and you come across such symbols written out like that. The confusion about brackets in Braille is because there are two types of brackets in print - square-ish brackets and the ones with kind of squiggley sides. The square brackets do indded have a Braille symbol. But I almost never see it used within text in books and stuff. Its always the other bracket - the one people use for online hugs - and there's no braille symbol for that. So it is written out "right bracket" "left bracket" So I think these are the symbols that are problems: ~\{}<> Jamie in Michigan To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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