Re: [docbook-tc] fonts.

[Nancy Harrison <nancylph@gmail.com>]

Hi Dave,

For the braille parts themselves, the phrase markup as you mention it seems like a good idea.

For the surrounding text, I'd recommend enclosing each combination of standard English/Braille transcription within an InformalExample element. I didn't see any completely inline usage of Braille, so that should work. Otherwise, I found it a bit confusing to distinguish them in the Word document (even though I read some Braille).  Then you could use whatever enclosing tagging you need (e.g. para, InformalTable, SegmentedList, SimpleList,  etc.) within the InformalExample to contain the Braille phrases 

HTH,

Nancy

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm looking at converting a Word file into docbook.

The word file contains 'black dot' braille,
a font which translates ASCII characters into
a pattern in a 6 dot cell.

Suggestions for markup please?
phrase class='braille-font'?

It is actually at block level (you don't get many
braille cells to a line), but
<para><phrase>  seems the best I can come up with.
http://iceb.org/Guidelines_for_Technical_Material_2008-10_read_only.doc
shows an example.


TIA

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