Braille Formats:
Principles of Print to Braille Transcription 1997

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Table of Contents

Rule 1: Basic Principles and Formats

1. Basic principles
2. General formats
3. Typographical and other print errors
4. Uncontracted braille, letter indicator, order of braille punctuation and composition symbols
5. Syllabified words and word division
6. Foreign material in English context
7. Transcriber's notes
8. Page size, line length, and line spacing
9. Volume size, numbering, and ending indication
10. Supplementary volumes
11. Transposed material
12. Titles and running heads
13. Print page numbers
14. Braille page numbers
15. References to page numbers, braille dots, line numbers, source materials
16. Blank spaces, blank lines, and breaks in context
17. Quoted matter and epigraphs
18. Acknowledgements, attributions, credit lines, and source citations

1. General provisions
2. Title pages
3. Supplemental title pages
4. Dedications
5. List of special braille symbols
6. Transcriber's Notes pages
7. Tables of contents
8. Material printed on or inside the book cover

1. Special typefaces
2. Colors of type
3. Circled words, words in colored boxes
4. Emphasized letters in words
5. Specially marked items in columns and lists

1. General provisions
2. Centered braille headings
3. Cell-5 braille headings
4. Braille paragraph heading
5. Braille column headings
6. Headings in colored type
7. Reference marks and notes to heading

1. General provisions
2. Mathematical and nonalphabetical signs in general textbooks
3. Print shapes and other characters
4. Numbers and number combinations
5. Superior letters, words, or numbers, superscripts and subscripts
6. Numeration system

1. Punctuation
2. Encloser or grouping symbols
3. Boxed or screened materials

1. Columned material
2. Listed items
3. Outlines
4. Indexes

1. General provisions
2. Placement of tables
3. Table lines
4. Table titles and labels
5. Tables captions
6. Table columns and column headings
7. Table row headings
8. Items in the columns of table
9. Formats for wide tables
10. Reference marks and notes in tables

1. Format for plays, dialogue and interviews
2. Reference marks and notes in plays and dialogue

1. Poetry
2. Scansion, accent, and meter
3. Poetic rhyme scheme
4. Alliteration

1. Line-numbered texts
2. Margin-numbered paragraphs
3. Verse-numbered texts
4. Hymnals and songbooks

1. Notes with print reference marks
2. Notes without print reference marks
3. Note placement and format
4. Note sections
5. Other marginal material

1. General provisions
2. Blank lines
3. Exercise directions
4. Exercise examples, models, sample questions and answers
5. Answer sections
6. Unnumbered or unlettered exercises, drills, or tests
7. Numbered or lettered exercises, drills, or tests
8. Formats for exercises, drills, and tests
9. Expendable braille material
10. Tests and test booklets

1. Displayed material
2. Intentional errors
3. Incomplete or indefinite dates
4. Blanks and omissions
5. Crossed-out items
6. Insertions, edited copy, proofreading marks

1. Spellers
2. Grammars
3. Sentence diagramming

1. Number, letter, and other codes
2. Crossword puzzles
3. Word puzzles and letter grids

1. General provisions
2. Illustration captions
3. Cartoons
4. Print forms
5. Maps
6. Genealogical and organizational charts
7. Miscellaneous charts and diagrams
8. Time lines
9. Graphs
10. Tactile graphics

1. General provisions
2. Unstressed diacritics
3. Diacritics
4. Phonetics
5. Materials for articulation and speech instruction

1. General format
2. Placement of pronunciation tables
3. Placement and indention of entry words, subentries, and runovers
4. Format for entry words
5. Prefixes, suffixes, single letters or letter combinations as main entries
6. Pronunciations of entry words and subentries
7. Nonalphabetical signs
8. Numbered or lettered definitions
9. Synonyms and antonyms
10. Illustrations and captions shown in entries
11. Dictionary volume identification
12. Facsimiles or excerpts from dictionaries and similar materials