
These signs should be preceded and followed by a space. List these signs on the special symbols page. Contractions should not be used in scansion where both stressed and unstressed syllables are shown.
These signs should be placed before the vowels of the syllables affected. Short or unstressed syllable sign ^ Long or stressed syllable sign _ SCANSION MARKS CODE
Scansion and Stress: (See Code of Braille Textbook Formats and Techniques, most recent edition.). Numbered Lines: For numbered lines, see Code of Braille Textbook Formats and Techniques, most recent edition. After the completion of the poetry, etc., begin the following text on a new braille line. Indicate the change of print format in a Transcriber's Note. (2) When an agency or braille publisher requires poetry, inscriptions, etc., to be transcribed in braille using prose form, insert the line sign to indicate the end of each complete line or print line of poetry, inscription, etc. finest lyric, To Althea from Prison (_Stone Walls doe not a prison make/Nor iron bars a Cage_), was written while he was paying the penalty for. List this sign on the special symbols page. The line sign may begin or end a braille line. When such are written in print in prose form, leave one blank cell preceding and following the line sign. (1) Line Sign: / : Ô > Use the line sign to represent the print mark which indicates the end of a poetic line, line of inscription, etc. If it is necessary to divide a stanza between two pages, the division should be made so that at least one poetic line (with its carry-over) appears at the top or bottom of the braille page, providing it is not the first stanza of the poem. In the writing of poetry, if only the title and the first line of the poem (with its carry-over) would appear at the bottom of the braille page, the poem should begin on the next braille page. A blank line should be left before and after each stanza. If a poetic line is too long for one braille line, the carry-over should begin in the third space of the next line. Verse Format: Each poetic line should begin in the first space of a new line of braille. Coinage, Weights, and Other Special Symbols. Accent Sign, Diphthongs, Foreign Languages. EBAE - RULE IX - POETRY, SCANSION AND STRESS English Braille