Welcome to Braille Tips

If you somehow ended up here without coming from my Youtube channel, this website is meant as a companion site for the channel, so check it out here.

Braille Tips file downloads below:

In order to download these files you must right click and then select "save link as" to save them to your computer.

• Jonathans_Speedbraille_2023.B2K
• TigerTemplate.docx
• Braille29.ttf
• JonathansGridGenerator.dotm

• Share with the community! Add your speedbraille (or other templates) here! email me at jonathan (at) brailletips.com

Hi I'm Jonathan Powers

I'm hoping to be more active in the Braille Community, so I've made the Braille Tips Youtube channel and this website with that goal in mind. Its easier than ever to collaborate with eachother and share ideas, so please don't hesitate if you have a question or advice to contact me!

Everyone who gets in to Braille has something to offer, and I'm hoping that as I share the methods that I have developed over the years, others will as well, and together we can make Braille better :)

Codes

I specialize in transcribing math and science books into UEB with encapsulated Nemeth.

All Braille is produced according to the 2016 Formats, and mathematical formulas are transcribed according to The Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation, 1972 Revision, including the 2007-2015 updates and the Guidance for Transcription Using the Nemeth Code within UEB Context.

Chemical notation and formulas are transcribed according to the Braille Code for Chemical Notation 1997.

Tactile graphics are produced according to the Guidelines and Standards for Tactile Graphics, 2010.

See the Resources section of this website to view these code books.

Contact

Email: jonathan @brailletips.com

Word VBA Reference docs

In order to use the methods in the below link you must (in the VBA editor) enable Tools > References > Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5

• Microsoft Beefs Up VBScript with Regular Expressions

The next two links are helpful references for using Word's built in search and replace.

• Find and Replace using wildcards
• Finding and replacing characters using wildcards

Code books

You may right-click and select "save target as" to save these PDF's to your computer, or left-click to view them in your browser.

• Rules of Unified English Braille 2013
• The Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation 1972 Revision
• Guidance for Transcription Using the Nemeth Code within UEB Contexts (2018)
• Graphing Calculator Guidelines
• Braille Code for Chemical Notation 1997
• Braille Formats Principles of Print-to-Braille Transcription, 2016
• Guidelines and Standards for Tactile Graphics, 2010
• Music Braille Code 1997

Nemeth Updates

• 2007 Nemeth 2007 update
• 2007 Nemeth 2007 update corrected edition of December 15, 2007
• 2007 Clarification Addendum
• 2010 Letter/number or Number/letter abbreviations
• 2010 Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin - New rule
• 2011 Rule XXV §191a(v) and §191b(vi) Use of blank line before directions
• 2011 Tables and Keying §187
• 2011 Replacement §187
• 2012 Rule XXV, sec 191: Wording change for list format
• 2013 Orientation 4c: Spacing of copyright, trademark, and registered symbols
• 2013 Rule XIV §86c: Short form of directly under
• 2014 Orientation §4c: Notice of the use of Tactile Graphics Guidelines 2010
• 2014 Rule IV §26: Use of ELI in uncontracted braille
• 2014 Rule XVII §119: Spacing with function names
• 2014 Rule XIX §134: Use of multipurpose indicators with operation signs
• 2014 Rule XXII §162: Per mille symbol
• 2014 Rule XXIV §184: Numeric indicator with enlarged grouping signs
• 2015 Rule VIII §54: Spacing for abbreviations within cancellation indicators
• The above updates in a .Zip file

Other Links

• Braille Authority of North America
• Ackley Appliance Service ‐ Perkins brailler repair
• Braille2000 ‐ Braille software
• Northern Michigan Braille