No, letter sign is dots 5-6. Jean A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. --Herbert Prochnow ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press" <brailleit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 6:45 PM Subject: [duxuser] Re: new braille symbols Aloha Jean, Wouldn't the semi-colon produce the dots 4-5 that you are looking for? It's also a letter sign, so that could also produce it. Betsy At 09:34 AM 2/9/2008, you wrote: >With the release of the BANA Code Updates for literary and textbook >formats that were just released and which took effect on January 1, >there are new symbols for things like copyright, trademark and >registered. Dots 4-5 "c", "t", and "r" respectively. Will these >codes be added to the next release of DBT? > >Also, how are rule changes encorporated? Will DBT wait until the >entire code is revised, or do they build in changes as they are >approved? I'm thinking here of the new rule in literary English >braille to not insert an apostrophe in plural numbers, >abbreviations, etc., and to use the termination indicator instead if >changing from an uppercase abbreviation to a lowercase plural "s". > >Is there any way to create the new symbols for copyright, trademark >and registered in simbraille in Word? I can't think of what might >create the dot 4-5 part. > >Jean > > "Stressed" spelled backward is "desserts" > > * * * * This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org. * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with * unsubscribe * as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription * options by visiting //www.freelists.org. The list archive * is also located there. * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com * * * * * * * This message is via list duxuser at freelists.org. * To unsubscribe, send a blank message with * unsubscribe * as the subject to <duxuser-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>. You may also * subscribe, unsubscribe, and set vacation mode and other subscription * options by visiting //www.freelists.org. The list archive * is also located there. * Duxbury Systems' web site is http://www.duxburysystems.com * * *