UEB Glossary
Collection of terms and explanations helping to clarify the transition from EBAE to UEB
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mode
a condition initiated by an indicator and describing the effect of the indicator on subsequent braille signs |
modifier
a diacritical mark (such as an accent) normally used in combination with a letter |
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nesting
the practice of closing indicators in the reverse order of opening |
non-alphabetic
designating any print or braille symbol, including the space, which is not a letter, modified letter, ligatured letter or contraction |
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passage
three or more symbols-sequences |
passage indicator
initiates a mode which persists indefinitely until an explicit terminator is encountered |
prefix
any one of the seven braille characters having only right-hand dots (@ ^ _ " . ; ,)orthebraillecharacter# |
print symbol
a single letter, digit, punctuation mark or other print sign customarily used as an elementary unit of text |
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root
any one of the 56 braille characters, including the space, which is not a prefix |
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shortform
a contraction consisting of a word specially abbreviated in braille |