Small Capitals and Roman Numerals
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.
Love this question from yesterday, it is funny how questions work into your day, this past Saturday, Emily, our Braille Transcriber converted print to braille, activity had a list of planet information preceded with Roman Numeral numbering. Then, by surprise, this question popped into my inbox.
“Ran across these small capitals in print as part of a sentence, but it was used for only roman numerals, do I need to transcribe this differently, so it is distinguished from the rest of the normal print?”
Keep your questions coming, they always help others become better Braille Transcribers, we all are continually learning something new every day! If you are not, it is because you are not asking enough questions. Wise words from my grandmother! : )
Enjoy your week!
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