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Braille Transcribers Course
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Session Topics
  • Mathematical signs
  • Units of Measure
  • Nonalphabetical signs
  • Special print shapes
  • Numbers and Numbering systems
  • Superior notations
  • Notes
  • Note Placements
  • Margin Materials
    Evaluation
  • Writing Exercise

    • Session 5: Nonalphabetical Signs

    Easy rules on these symbols!
    1. For placement and spacing, follow the print!
    2. if the asterisk, dagger, double dagger, hollow dot, paragraph sign, parallels sign, or section sign are used as footnote or reference signs, then you must use an "order of priority" system, described in the reading on margin notes
    3. if you run across a symbol that has no braille equivalent, use the name of the symbol

    dot 1dots 1-2-3-4-6 & ampersand
    dots 3-5dots 3-5 * asterisk
    dot 4dot 1dots 2-3-4-5 @ at sign
    dot 4dots 3-4-5 check mark
    dots 4-6dots 2-5 : boldface or symbolic colon
    dots 3-4dots 1-6 combined stress signs
    dot 4dots 3-4-5-6 # crosshatch, number sign
    dots 2-6dots 2-6 dagger
    dots 3-5dots 2-6 double dagger
    dots 3-6dots 3-6 - lightface dash
    dots 4-6dots 3-6dots 3-6 ~ lightface swung dash
    dots 4-5-6dots 4-6dots 3-6dots 3-6 ~ boldface swung dash
    dot 5dot 2 " ditto sign
    dots 1-2-3-4dots 3-4-5 paragraph sign
    dots 1-2-5-6dots 1-2-5-6 parallels
    dot 4dots 2-3-6 ? question mark
    dots 2-3-4dot 3 § section sign
    dot 4dots 1-2-5-6 vertical bar