The placement of a sidebar in a print text can create questions for a braille transcriber, such as whether the sidebar should be formatted at the end or the beginning of the braille page? Sidebars in print can be placed in several locations and sometimes are indicated with a different size or type of print font, which makes the decision difficult for the braille transcriber. Refer to a few guidelines in this week’s Dose.
Weekly Dose: Formatting Sidebars This might be nice to print off if you run into this type of print text in your work! Anything to help make your life a little easier. Have a fantastic week! – Denise Bean
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.
