Nemeth Code

PDF and BRF (updated April 2025)

The purpose of this revision is to modernize the code and clarify the application of pre-existing as well as newly adopted rules for transcription of mathematics and science using Nemeth within the UEB code. This document replaces the 1972 edition, as well as any updates and provisional guidance previously published by BANA. Please note that some minor corrections have been made to the BRF files and these have been posted above.

BANA is grateful to its Nemeth Committee for their diligent work in revising and updating this document.

 Approved August 2024

The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) announces the publication of the Errata for The Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science Notation 2022.

This practice is effective immediately.

 PDF, BRF

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Approved 4/23

PDF and BRF

BANA offers the Chemical Notation Using the Nemeth Braille Code 2023 publication as a printable PDF and a zipped BRF. An accessible PDF version will follow.

The 2023 edition of the Braille Code for Chemical Notation Using the Nemeth Code has been aligned with Unified English Braille (UEB) and reflects current developments in chemical notation. Professional chemistry faculty, braille transcribers, and representatives from the Committee on Nomenclature, Terminology, and Symbols of the American Chemical Society have been involved in this effort.

BANA is grateful to its Chemistry Committee for their diligent work in revising and updating this code.

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Approved April 2018

 PDF, BRF

BANA's Nemeth Code Technical Committee has worked diligently to develop this new publication Graphing Calculator Guidelines. It is based on the Nemeth Code and its updates as well as on the Guidance for Transcription Using the Nemeth Code within UEB Contexts. BANA welcomes feedback from users of this publication.

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