Dear Richard, I've been reading a web braille book which has symbols in it so people reading 6-dot computer braille can distinguish between a capital computer braille a and a small computer braille a. The book used a symbol called "capitalization indicator" followed by the letter to be capitalized. The "capitalization indicator" was dots 4,5,6.
I thought that was interesting because, like you, I believed everything in computer braille had to correspond one on one. But the book had other two-cell signs, too: dots 4,5,6 3,4,6 is the begin computer braille indicator and dots 4,5,6 1,5,6 is the end computer braille indicator 4,5,6 3,4 is the end emphasis indicator and 4,5,6 1,6 is beginning emphasis indicator. Can anyone explain these differences to me? I think it's a good thing these signs exist, because there are many times when I can't write 8-dot braille. My BN QT will only write 6 dot braille and my brailler and slates won't do it either. Terri Pannett, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX, California
