I agree. I'd love to have italicized text show up formatted as such, and not merely put in its own element.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 10, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi guys > As a proofreader who has been forced to study UEB lately, I would first like > to say that UEB is easier to read than to write; in fact, in my no-so-humble > opinion, it’s a real pain to write for those of us who have been using > braille since the earth was young. I suggested this to HIMS and I would > please, pretty please, like to suggest to Apple, that even though BANA thinks > to make the rest of us switch to UEB that the Grade 2 tables which are now > listed as U.S. braille by VoiceOver be kept as a choice until some of us are > not on the earth any more. > > Having said all that, it will be easier for computers to put in format in > UEB. Usually when I’m writing along I don’t care about that, but if I did, > UEB would be easier to input things like italics, boldface, script, etc. into > your braille text. It should be easier, for those who care, to switch between > Nemeth Code and UEB also since there are specific symbols for doing so. > > Gigi > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.