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Six principal systems of embossed type in use c. 1900: Haüy, Gall, Howe, Moon, Braille, Wait. A tactile alphabet is a system for writing material that the blind can read by touch. While currently the Braille system is the most popular and some materials have been prepared in Moon type, historically, many other tactile alphabets have existed:
The braille package for LaTeX (and several printed publications such as the printed manual for the new international braille music code) show unpunched dots as very small dots (much smaller than the filled-in dots) rather than circles, and this tends to print better. Some braille fonts do not indicate unpunched dots at all.
The Braille pattern dots-256 ( ⠲) is a 6-dot braille cell with both middle, and the bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with both upper-middle, and the lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2832, and in Braille ASCII with the number 4.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... move to sidebar hide. Braille Patterns Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) 0: 1 ...
The Braille pattern dots-345 ( ⠜) is a 6-dot braille cell with the top and middle right and bottom left dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top and upper-middle right, and lower-middle left dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+281c, and in Braille ASCII with the greater-than sign: >.
For example, ⠌ dots 3-4 represents / in Braille ASCII, and this is the Braille slash, but ⠿ dots 1-2-3-4-5-6 represents =, and this is not the equals sign in Braille. Braille ASCII more closely corresponds to the Nemeth Braille Code for mathematics than it does to the English Literary Braille Code, as the Nemeth Braille code is what it was ...
The Braille pattern dots-156 ( ⠱) is a 6-dot braille cell with the upper left, and middle and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the upper left, and upper-middle and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2831, and in Braille ASCII with a colon: ":".
The Braille pattern dots-16 ( ⠡) is a 6-dot braille cell with the top left and bottom right dots raised, or an 8-dot braille cell with the top left and lower-middle right dots raised. It is represented by the Unicode code point U+2821, and in Braille ASCII with the asterisk: *.