braille-specs

Guidelines for edition of mass-distribution braille publications

Table of contents

• Brief introduction
• Section 1: layout and design of publications: rules and recommendations
  • 1.1. Braille title page
  • 1.2. Pagination, footer
  • 1.3. Structuring text
    • 1.3.1. Introductory remarks
    • 1.3.2. Marking text division levels
    • 1.3.3. Headlines
    • 1.3.4. Beginning of the braille book
    • 1.3.5. Shifts text fragments to the right
    • 1.3.6. Table of contents of the braille book
    • 1.3.7. Making notes
    • 1.3.8. Non-hierarchical text elements
    • 1.3.9. Texts requiring additional braille layout
    • 1.3.10. Layout of pages, paragraphs, lines
• Section 2: braille definitions and rules
  • 2.1. Alphabets
    • 2.1.1. Russian alphabet
    • 2.1.2. Latin alphabet
    • 2.1.3. Greek alphabet
    • 2.1.4. Definitions for additional letters in the French and German alphabets
  • 2.2. Digits
  • 2.3. Punctuation
  • 2.4. Special braille characters
    • 2.4.1. Signs of alphabets
    • 2.4.2. Emphasis
    • 2.4.3. Mathematical Special Characters
    • 2.4.4. Other special characters
  • 2.5. Math symbols
    • 2.5.1. Definitions of arithmetic symbols, equalities and inequalities
    • 2.5.2. Fractions
    • 2.5.3. Parentheses
    • 2.5.4. Degrees and roots
    • 2.5.5. Indexes and Arrows
  • 2.6. Other characters
• List of terms