Have you noticed that children’s nursery rhyme print books, are usually placed in the center of a page surrounded by flowers or pictures? Basically, visually eye candy for a sighted reader. In braille, this type of formatting is not recommended. Just remember, ease of reading for the braille reader must come first in all of your transcription work. — Denise Bean
New Weekly Dose: Poetry Formatting
For more information and to see past Weekly Dose of Braille topics check out our Weekly Dose of Braille Page.
The Weekly Dose of Braille is created by our Youth Services Librarian and Braille Transcriber, Denise Bean, with the help of our Instructional Materials team. It gives you a taste of braille examples that may be used in worksheets or textbook formatting. It is a miscellaneous mixture of tricky, sometimes challenging circumstances, that a braille transcriber may come across or question. Provided each week is a downloadable PDF file on each topic, a brf file can also be made available for your convenience.
