Foreword -- page 5
Section 1. The 63 Braille Signs -- page 7
Section 2. The importance of the signs and the rules for their application -- page 9
Section 3. The letters -- page 10
Section 4, Word contractions -- page 11
Paragraph 1. Alphabet contractions -- page 11
Paragraph 2. Other one-character contractions -- page 12
Paragraph 3. Word contractions consisting of two or three characters -- page 12
Section 5. Word contractions -- page 16
Paragraph 1. Word contractions that are used as word parts -- page 16
Paragraph 2. Other Word contractions -- page 16
Paragraph 3. Rules for the application of the word contractions -- page 17
Section 6. Punctuation -- page 18
Section 7. Composition Signs (see partial translation below) -- page 20
Section 8. Other Characters -- page 25
Section 9. Number -- page 28
Paragraph 1. Cardinals -- page 28
Paragraph 2. Ordinal -- page 28
Paragraph 3. Decimal numbers -- page 28
Paragraph 4. Fractions -- page 29
Paragraph 5. Mixed fractions -- page 29
Section 10. Characters, etc. -- page 29
Section 11. Write rules for numbers -- page 32
Paragraph 1. Date entries -- page 32
Paragraph 2. Time -- page 32
Paragraph 3. coins, measures. weight -- page 32
Paragraph 4. Roman numerals -- page 33
Paragraph 5. Phone numbers -- page 34
Paragraph 6. Bank numbers -- page 34
Paragraph 7. Social Security Numbers 34
Paragraph 8. numbers in words -- page 35
Section 12. Spelling sharing in abbreviated Braille -- page 36
Annex I. Line break Hyphenation -- page 29
Annex II. Systematic overview of the 63 signs and Their importance -- page 46
Annex III. Alphabetical List of all word contractions -- page 50
Annex IV. Alphabetical List of all word contractions -- page 55
Annex V. Alphabetical List of phrases, assistants, Other characters, numbers, and arithmetic characters -- page 56
Index -- page 60
This book describes the Danish braille 1993.
The book is a revised version of 'The Danish Braille 1970'.
The audit was carried out by the Danish Braille Following composition: Three representatives from the Danish blind community: Jorgen Eckmann, Arne Mandrup Hansen and Kurt Nielsen. A represtative from each of the following production sites: Denmark's Blind Library: Leif Haal. Institute for the Blind and visually impaired, Hellerup: Linda Jansen. Institute for Blind and Visually impaired children and Young people in Denmark: Svend Thougaard.
The audit is mainly carried out to facilitate the processing of of texts by automated point making.
In the context of the audit, point-of- Some changes that have been made by Laesemaessay Ärsager Two and three-character abbreviations, which have been formed by analogy with previously adopted abbreviations. The changes that are
In the word abbreviations has contributed to a simplification of the of the writing rules.
It has the intention of the The disadvantage of switching between texts, Written for and after the audit, the sä is small As possible.
The Braille network has also established a Standard for a Danish 8-point code, which ensures maximum possible consistency Between the two codes.
The periodical review Trasder in force on 1 January 1993.
Kobenhavn, December 1992.
Kurt Nielsen, Chairman of the Danish Braille
Braille can be written either in full writing, small abbreviation or large abbreviation.
Full script will say that the text is written without the use of abbreviations.
Small abbreviation means using the word abbreviations that are made up of a Punctuation marks, other than word abbreviations consisting of the characters (Section 4, page 11-12).
Great abbreviation means using all word abbreviations and word abbreviations (Section 4, pages 11-15, and Section 5, page 16-17).
When writing Braille, the general spelling rules are Jvf. Spelling dictionary. However, with regard to hyphenation, see annex I, Page 37-45.
In the case of a printed or written addendum to the Braille, the Its spelling, punctuation and division into sections.
The 63 characters are used:
1) as letters (Section 3, page 10),
2) individually, two or three together as abbreviations for words, also called Word abbreviations (Section 4, page 11-15),
3) as abbreviations for parts of the word (Section 5, page 16-17);
4) In the case of Scetningmarks, other characters, numbers and signs (Section 6-11, page 18-35).
Since most of the signs have more than one meaning, sometimes an auxiliary is added.
Rules for the use of the signs can be found in (Section 7, pages 20-25 and Section Section 9-11, page 28-35).
For the purposes of this code, the signs intended to clarify the meaning of a Braille character can have more than one meaning.
1) Letter Sign (not a contraction), or switch off all-caps , See AD 1)
2) Capitalization . See AD 2)
3) Whole Word Capitalization _ See AD 3)
4) Emphasis (Russian style) ; See AD 4)
5) Characters for foreign letter, accent marks, Up-unloading signs " See AD 5)
6) Foreign language in Danish texts "1 See AD 6)
7) Number Signs #See AD 7)
8) Phonetic Characters ^ See AD 8)