Hi, Nicole,
In a way, you're right but in another way, you're wrong. The BN supports the
one-for-one Computer braille which isn't adopted by anybody. But the symbols
for the numbers, plus, minus, times and division are the same as Nemeth
code. But the Computer braille code has been adopted by BANA is a code and
it uses Nemeth Braille along with that code. There are some two-celled
signs because CBC doesn't support 8 dot braille. It also has two
multiplication signs, one for the dot and one for the cross. I believe dots
16 is the cross and dots 4,16 is the dot. There is a manual about CBC on the
BANA web site:
www.bana.org.
Because CBC allows Nemeth code, there are more symbols than the one-for-one
computer braille the BN supports.
I wish there wer different names for the two braille systems for computers,
but there isn't.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
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