BRL: Braille through Remote Learning

Braille Transcribers Course
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  • General formatting guidelines
  • Title Pages
  • All about volumes
  • Dedications, Acknowledgments, Prefaces, Forwards, and Introductions
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  • The Special Symbols Page

  • Writing Exercise

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    • Volume Calculator

    Introduction : this calculator is designed to help the braille transcriber calculate the number of volumes to use to braille a print document. DIRECTIONS: to use this calculator, proceed as follows:
    1. Braille some number of pages from the print. 40 braille pages is a typical value. Enter that value under ""Number of braille pages produced"
    2. Determine the number of print pages represented by this amount of braille. Enter that number under "Number of print equivalent pages"
    3. Enter the total number of pages in the text under "Total number of pages"
    4. Click on the "Determine Volume" button.
    5. Adjust the value of "Pages per volume", each time followed by a click on the "Determine Volume" button.
    6. Continue this process until the value in number of volumes comes close to a whole number.

    Input Value(s):

    Number of braille pages produced
    Number of print equivalent pages
    Total number of pages in the text
    Pages per volume (should be around 80, no higher than 90)

    Result(s):

    Number of volumes
    New volume after this amount of print pages
    Braille-to-print page ratio
    Print-to-braille page ratio

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