From the Ink Print Book to the Braille Book Difficulties of the Process.
One of the most important problems braille printing houses and libraries have to face today is, beyond any doubt, the accurate transfer from the ink print to the braille book, especially with regard to the transcription of textbooks for the different subjects of the various educational levels: primary, secondary, vocational and university education without neglecting, of course, the difficulties which one encounters in other books, which while not belonging to any planned instruction, on account of their specific contents, also present certain difficulties. The book editing service, or if this does not exist, the transcribers in printing houses and libraries are the ones who first have to cope with the transcription problems the ink print book present, so that the braille book provides the blind student or reader with the same scientific or cultural information which is contained in the normal one. The following two principles have to be borne in mind: (a) That the blind have to ...