UEB Glossary
Collection of terms and explanations helping to clarify the transition from EBAE to UEB
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strong
designating contractions (other than alphabetic wordsigns) containing dots in both the top and bottom rows and in both the left and right columns of the braille cell |
strong character
designating a braille character containing dots in both the top and bottom rows and in both the left and right columns of the braille cell, which therefore is physically unambiguous |
symbols-sequence
an unbroken string of braille signs, whether alphabetic or non-alphabetic, preceded and followed by space (also referred to as symbols-word) |
terminator
a braille sign which marks the end of a mode |
text element
a section of text normally read as a unit (a single paragraph, a single heading at any level, a single item in a list or outline, a stanza of a poem, or other comparable unit), but not "pages" or "lines" in the physical sense that are created simply as an accident of print formatting |
uncontracted
transcribed without contractions (also referred to as grade 1 braille) |
upper
including dot 1 and/or dot 4 |
word indicator
initiates a mode which extends over the next letters- sequence in the case of the capitals indicator or over the next symbols-sequence in the case of other indicators |
wordsign
a contraction which represents a complete word |
alphabetic
designating letters of the alphabet, including modified letters, ligatured letters and contractions, which stand for letters | |