French Braille Code
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ... 7
DEFINITIONS ... 9
GENERAL NOTES ... 11
TABLE OF CLASSIFICATION OF 64 CHARACTERS BRAILLE ... 13
SYMBOLS TABLES BRAILLE ... 15
TABLE 1 THE 63 SYMBOLS ... 15
TABLE 2 THE FIGURES AND THE BASIC ARITHMETIC SIGNS ... 19
TABLE 2A THE FIGURES LOUIS BRAILLE ... 20
TABLE 3 COMPOUND SYMBOLS ... 21
PART ONE: THE BASIC BRAILLE CODE ... 25
1.1 CAPITAL LETTERS ... 25
a) Words ... 25
(b) Acronyms ... 25
c) Mix of uppercase and lowercase letters within a word ... 26
d) Emphasized capital letters ... 26
1.2 THE FIGURES AND THE BASIC ARITHMETIC SIGNS ... 27
a) Generalities ... 27
b) Usage and Scope of the Mathematical Modifier ... 27
c) Mix of numbers and letters ... 28
d) Mathematical modifier and abbreviated Braille ... 28
e) Space or point between the numbers ... 29
f) Forward slash ... 29
g) Percentage and per thousand symbols ... 30
1.3 SPACING WITH THE PUNCTUATIONS ... 31
a) After a word ... 31
b) On both sides of a word or group of words ... 31
c) Dashes ... 31
1.4 THE GUILLEMETS ... 33
1.5 THE EXHIBITOR OR ELEVATION INDICATOR ... 34
a) Role of the indicator ... 34
(b) Scope of the indicator ... 34
c) Figures according to an indicator of exponent ... 34
1.6 ABBREVIATIONS ... 35
1.7 THE BASIC VALUE INDICATOR ... 36
a) With abbreviated Braille ... 36
b) With the numbers ... 36
c) Location and range ... 36
1.8 USUAL COMPUTER EXPRESSIONS ... 38
1.9 MODIFIERS 1 AND 2 ... 39
PART TWO COMPLEMENTARY RULES ... 41
PREAMBLE ... 41 PRELIMINARY NOTES ... 41
2.1 CAPITAL LETTERS ... 42
a) Initial or capitalized word ... 42
b) Passage entirely in capital letters ... 42
c) Mix of uppercase and lowercase letters ... 43
d) Acronyms ... 44
2.2 EMPHASIS ... 45
a) General Indicator of Emphasis ... 45
b) Word Emphasis ... 45
c) Passage Emphasis ... 46
d) Emphasis within a word ... 46
e) Multiple Emphasis within a word ... 47
f) Second and third type Emphasis ... 48
(g) Other possibilities ... 50
2.3 Quotation Marks ... 51
a) Second and third level quotation marks ... 51
b) Employment ... 51
2.4 CODE CHANGE INDICATOR, END INDICATOR 52
a) The code change indicator ... 52
b) The end indicator ... 52
2.5 FOREIGN LETTERS ... 54
Table of the main foreign letters ... 55
2.6 IMPACT ON THE ABRIDGED BRAILLE ... 56
THIRD PART PRESENTATION OF TEXTS IN BRAILLE ... 57
INTRODUCTION ... 57
3.1 THE ELEMENTS OF LAYOUT BRAILLE ... 58
a) Centering mode ... 58
(b) paragraph or paragraph ... 59
c) Poetry mode or list ... 59
d) Block mode ... 62
e) Switching from one mode to another ... 64
f) Blank lines, page breaks, and tabs ... 66
(g) Separation of words, cuts, widows and orphans ... 66
3.2 THE TITLES ... 68
a) First level title ... 68
b) Second level title ... 69
(c) Third, fourth and fifth level securities ... 69
3.3 CONTEXTUAL TRANSCRIPTER NOTES ... 70
a) Generalities ... 70
b) Notes indented ... 70
c) Notes incise ... 70
3.4 THE PAGINATION ... 72
a) Braille pagination ... 72
b) Reference pagination ... 75
First method ... 75
Second method ... 79
3.5 FORMAT AND LABELING OF BRAILLE VOLUMES ... 82
3.6 THE PRELIMINARY PAGES ... 83
a) Title page ... 83
b) Reverse side of the title page ... 84
(c) Back cover ... 84
d) Notes from the transcriber ... 85
e) Other headings ... 86
3.7 TABLE OF CONTENTS ... 87
a) General table ... 87
b) Specific table ... 89
3.8 THE TABLES ... 92
a) Tables in columns ... 93
b) Tables in rows ... 95
c) Tables with progressive recesses ... 97
d) Tables in titles and paragraphs ... 100
e) Hierarchical List Tables ... 103
f) Hybrid Tables ... 106
3.9 FOOTNOTES AND END NOTES ... 109
a) Call of note ... 109
b) Text of the note ... 109
c) Multiple calls for the same note ... 110
d) Plentiful notes ... 110
e) Marginal notes ... 111
3.10 BOXES ... 113
3.11 POETRY ... 116
3.12 THEATER ... 118
a) Elements of a play ... 118
1o List of characters ... 118
2o Acts and scenes ... 118
3o Didascalies ... 119
4o Replicas ... 120
b) Theater in prose ... 120
1o Short replicas ... 120
2o Long replicas ... 122
c) Theater in verse ... 123
3.13 TEXTS WITH NUMBERED LINES ... 126
a) Numbering in the left margin ... 126
b) Numbering in the right margin ... 129
c) Recall numbering ... 132
3.14 COMIC STRIPS ... 134