Supplementary Guide to UEB Reference Materials

1 Supplementary Guide to UEB Reference Materials Unless otherwise indicated, page numbers refer to The Rules of Unified English Braille, 2013. For referenced BANA Guidances visit: * indicates definition of entry word A. @ sign, 25 Caret, 24, 42. Abbreviations, 106, 152 Cent Sign , 26. Accented letters, 42, 190 Chemistry, 89, 178, see BANA Guidance capitals, 80 Code switching, 199-210. in fully capped words, 89 how to use, 202-203. Acronyms, 106, 152 indicators Addition foreign language, 191-192, 195. non-technical Materials , 31 IPA, 199, 207-208. technical Materials , 169 music, 199, 208-209. Alphabetic wordsign, *7, 9, 15, 103-106, Nemeth code, 199, 209-210. 164 non-UEB, 199, 203-208. Ampersand &, 21 Coinage, 26, 64.

2 Anglicized words, 45, 158, 186, 189 Colored type, 11, 97. Apostrophe, 18, 69, 105, 107 Comma, 69. Arrows, 21, 174 numeric mode, 59. line mode, 219 Comparison, signs of, 169,31. Asterisk, 21 Compound words, bridging, 146. At sign @, 25 Computer material contractions in, 155. B email addresses, 155. Blank to be filled in, 73, 160 grade 1 indicators, 52. Boldface indicators, 91 Computer notation, 178. Brackets, opening and closing, 69, 78 Contracted (grade 2) braille, *7, 14. Braille grouping indicators, 23, 45, 172 usage cross-referenced, 14. Braille order, list of symbols, 275 Contractions summary, 9. Bullet, 24, 34, 37 Contractions, *7, 9, 103-168. abbreviations, 152. C acronyms, 152. Capitalization, 79-90 alphabetic wordsigns, *7, 9, 15, 103-106, grade 1, 55 164.

3 Indicators bridging, 146-152. choice of, 87 aspirated h, 146. passage, 83 compound words, 146. placement of, 87 dipthongs, 151. terminator, 83, 86 prefixes, 147. word, 80 suffixes, 150. small caps, 98 computer material , 155. use of, 79 dash, 165. words, 80 dialect, 156. Captials, modified (accented), 80, 89 foreign language, 188. 1. Contractions, continued Cube roots, 174. fragments of words, 156 Currency signs, 26, 36, 64. groupsigns Cursor indicator, 13. final-letter (dots 46, 56), 10, 132-135, 143- 145, 167 D. lower (ea, be, bb, con, cc, dis, en, ff, gg, in), 9, Dagger, 21. 116, 143, 144, 166, 167 Dash, 72, 99, 165. strong (ch, gh, sh, th, wh, ed, er, ou, replaces two hyphens in print, 74. ow, st, ing, ar), 9, 109, 143, 144 terminates numeric mode, 62.

4 With short forms, 140 Dates, 64. initial-letter (dots 45, 456, 5), 7, 9, Decimal point, 69. 124-132 numeric mode, 59. lisping, 158 technical material , 170. lower sign rule, 116, 123, 145, 165 Definitions (terminology), 7. omitted letters, 160 Degrees, 27. preference, 142-145, 157 Diacritics, 42, 45-47. punctuation within words, 158 Diagonal lines, 221. shortforms, 10, 135, 139 Dialect, 156. as parts of words, 137-140 Digit, numeric mode, 59. as words, 136 Diphthongs, 152. avoiding confusion, 140 Ditto mark ", 28. division of, 167 Dividing words, 162. list (Appendix 1), 229 Division , 20, 31, 169. not in Appendix 1, 139 Dollar sign $, 26. see Shortforms Dot, 69. with "s" or apostrophe "s", 229 Dot locator for "mention", 28.

5 With grade 1 indicator, 141 Dot locator for "use", 29, 53. speech, hesitation, slurring, 160 Double dagger, 21. spelling, 160. stammering, 161 E. strong (and, for, of, the, with), 9, 108 EBAE: English Braille AmericanEdition, 3. syllabified words, 162 Ellipsis, 74, 99. unfamiliar words, 157 Email addresses, 56, 155. word division, 162 -eng, 47. word list (Appendix 2), 241-274 Englishalphabet, 41. wordsigns, *9 English, early forms of, 181-183. alphabetic wordsigns, *7, 9, 15, 103- Equals sign, 31, 61, 169. 106, 164 Equations, examples of, 23, 27, 31, 52, lower (be, enough, were, his, in, was), 57, 61-62, 170-172, 174, 206, 209-210. 9, 112 spatial, 65, 178. strong (child, shall, this, which, out, Exclamation mark, 69.)

6 Still), 9, 106, 164 Euro , 27. Copyright , 25. Crossed-out type, 97 F. Crosses, 21, 25, 31 Facsimile transcription, 11. Crosshatch #, 33 Feet ', 30. 2. Female (Venus), 30 Graphic sign, *7. Final-letter contractions (dots 46, 56), 10, Greater-than >, 20, 31, 169. 132-135, 143-145, 167 Greek letters, 48. preference in contractions, 144 Grouping indicators, 23, 45, 172. Final-letter groupsigns (dots 46, 56), *7, with lower wordsigns, 40, 113, 115. 10, 132-135, 143-145, 167 Groupsigns, *7. preference in contractions, 144 as parts of shortforms, 140. Flat (music) in UEB text, 32 contractions, preference in, 142, 145. Following print, 10 final-letter (dots 46, 56), 10, 132-135, Font Attributes; see Typeforms 144-145, 167.

7 Foreign Language, 185-197, see BANA lower (ea, be, bb, con, cc, dis, en, ff, gg, Guidance in), 9, 116, 143, 144, 166, 167. accented letters, 42, 48, 190 strong (ch, gh, sh, th, wh, ed, er, ou, anglicized words, 45, 158, 186, 189 ow, st, ing, ar), 9, 109, 143, 144. code signs, 192 Guide dots, 227-228. code switch indicators, 195. contractions in, 188 H. punctuation in, 190 Hash #, 33. use of non-UEB indicators, 203 Highlighting, 11, 97. World Braille Usage, available at Horizontal line mode, 217. Hyphen, 15, 72, 73, 82, 99, 163. Formatting, see BANA Guidance with question mark 75. Forward slash (Solidus), 74 terminates numeric mode, 62. Fractions, 52, 61, 170 Hyphenated words, division of 163. G I. General Rules, 7-18 Icons, 34, 176.

8 General Symbols and Indicators, 19-40 Inches ", 30. Grade 1 mode, 51-58 Indicators, *7, 11. capitalization, 55 arrow mode, 12. confusion with contractions, 54 boldface, 91. confusion with shortforms, 141 braille grouping, 23, 45, 172. indicators capitals, 79. choice of, 56 choice of, 56. numeric, 53, 62 dot locator for "mention", 28. optional use, 57 dot locator for "use", 29, 52. passage, 52, 56 grade 1 mode, 12, 51-57, 59. punctuation with, 72 optional use, 57. symbol, 51 italic, 91. terminator, 53 letter, 93. word, 52 level change, 172. stammering, 56 ligature, 46. Grades of braille line contracted (grade 2) braille, *7, 14, 103 continuation (numeric mode), 66, usage cross-referenced, 14 horizontal line mode, 12, 217.

9 Uncontracted (grade 1) braille, *7, *9, 13 poetry, 211. usage cross-referenced, 14. 3. Indicators, continued Level change indicators, 172. list of, 19 Ligaturedletters, 46. "mention", 28 Line continuation, numeric mode, 59. non-UEB, 199 Line mode, 217-227. numeric, 12, 53, 59 Lisping, 158. passage indicator, 66, used in math Long dash, 73. context only (AAExpert 9/3/15) Long numbers, dividing, 66. order of, 101 Low line (underscore), 72-73. passage, *8, 52 Lower groupsigns (ea, be, bb, con, cc, dis, script, 91 en, ff, gg, in), *9, 116, 143-145, 166-167. shape mode, 12 preference in contractions, 143. shapes in technical Materials , 176 with punctuation, 124. superscript & subscript, 12, 36, 62 Lower sign rule, 116, 123, 145, 165.

10 Symbol, 93 Lower wordsigns (be, enough, were, his, terminator, 53, 96 in, was), 112. transcriber-defined, 91 with capitalization, 113. transcriber's note, 39 with punctuation, 40, 113, 116. typeform, 91-101. underlined, 91 M. "use", 29, 52 Male (Mars), 30. with punctuation, 99 Mathematical signs, 20, 31, 169. word, *9, 52, 94 grade 1 indicators, 52. Infinity sign , 289 print spacing, 31, 169. -ing, 112 Matrices and vectors, technical material , rule for, 165 177. Initial-letter contractions "Mention", dot locator for, 28. (dots 45, 456, 5), *7, 9, 124-132 Minus sign, 20, 31, 169. Integral sign , 281 Minutes, 27. IPA Mixed Numbers, 61, 171. code switching indicators, 199, 203 Modes, *8, 11. use, 48 indicators, 12.