Letters
In numerical order by decade, the letters are: The generic accent sign, , is used with foreign names such as ''Molière'' that have accented letters not found in German. There are numerous contractions and abbreviations.Punctuation
Punctuation is as follows: Only the first asterisk is marked with dot 6, so print *** is in braille . is the ''Artikel'' sign, marking an article of a document. For the brackets of phonetic transcription, German Braille uses a modified form, . Additional punctuation and symbols, especially mathematical, are explained in the external reference below.Numbers
Numbers are introduced with the sign . They are dropped to decade 5 for ordinals and for the denominator of fractions. So, for example, is , while is (4th), and is ́. The percent sign requires the number sign even after a number: ; otherwise it would look like the (undefined) fraction . In a compound fraction, a repeat of the number sign separate the units from the fraction: .Formatting
The emphasis sign (for italics, underline, or bold) is marked with an extra point, , when it occurs in the middle of a word. It is doubled, , when more than one word is emphasized, in which case the ending sign will be required at the end of the last word. The all-caps sign is used for initialisms and the like. Doubled, it is used for all-cap text, such as titles, and the same ending sign, , is used. Names with initials, such as ''J.S. Bach'', do not require the cap sign. The lower-case sign is used to mark mixed case or exceptions to expected capitalization; as such, it replaces the apostrophe that sets off the plural -s in print: : , , . (Note the initialism sign can be used for a single letter.) Lower-case metric units are marked as lower-case: . This is useful, as it ends the scope of the number sign : : , .See also
* Moon type is a simplification of the Latin alphabet for embossing. An adaptation for German-reading blind people has been proposed.Notes
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