2. Basic UEB and More - SusanJ/UEB_back GitHub Wiki

UEB is a very comprehensive braille code that includes a lot more than just literary braille. However, I think it is useful to specify what I refer to as Basic UEB which is intended to be a subset of UEB adequate for transcribing typical non-technical material.

[References to the "Rulebook" are to the The Rules of Unified English Braille, Second Edition, 2013 .]

Basic UEB is here defined as including the major portion of the material in Rulebook Sections 1-10. Basic UEB does not address the additional material covered in Sections 11-16 although it could incorporate Section 14 code switching to another braille code, such as to Nemeth for technical material, without requiring other additional aspects of UEB.

The material covered in Sections 1-10 includes the non-specialized UEB symbols in Chapter 3 but only a subset of the UEB modes and effects.

As for modes, Basic UEB includes the default, numeric (Sec. 5) , and grade 1 (Sec. 6) modes but does not include the other three modes, i.e. the shape mode, the arrow mode, and the horizontal line mode, that are listed in Rulebook Sec. 2.4.3. The modes set by the special numeric indicators, i.e. the spaced numeric indicator, numeric passage indicator, and numeric terminator are not included. (These modes are used primarily for spatial arithmetic and other technical material.)

As for effects, Basic UEB includes the capitalization, typeform, and ligature text aspects which are all the effects listed in Sec. 2.4.4 with the exceptions of superscripts and subscripts. (Basic UEB does provide for limited use of non-simultaneous single-level superscripts and subscripts such as are used in literary contexts for indicating footnotes.) As for the other indicators listed in Sec. 2.4.5, it includes the transcriber’s note indicators, the braille grouping indicators, and the numeric mode line continuation indicators but does not include the cursor indicator, the general fraction open and close indicators, nor the non-UEB word indicator.