backslash
\
_*
bullet
•
_4
tilde
~
@9
underscore
_
.-
equals
=
"7
plus
+
"6
minus
−
"-
multiplication
×
"8
division
÷
"/
angle brackets, opening and closing
(or less than and greater than signs)
<
>
@<
@>
dagger
†
@,?
double dagger
‡
@,]
Yellow + blue = green.
,yell[ "6 blue "7 gre54
Should we get tickets to see Florence + The Machine, Ke$ha, or Deadmau5—or all
three?
,%d we get tickets to see ,flor;e "6 ,!
,ma*9e1 ,ke@sha1 or ,d1dmau#e,-or all
?ree8
All of them, please! You are the best! <3
,all ( !m1 pl1se6 ,y >e ! be/6 @<#c
Some Contractions Used More Often
To reduce exceptions and complexity in the contraction rules, contractions that
stand for a group of letters will be used in some cases in which they are not used
in current braille.
professor
pr(essor
Overview of Changes from Current Literary Braille to UEB; BANA, March 2013
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