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Complete documentation for boxes is provided in Rule 6, §3 of the Formats code.
A popular form of publishing in today's textbooks are the use of boxes to offset materials, with the intention of catching the student's eye and/or helping to organize information on the page for the student. Boxes may be actual printed boxes that surround some text or graphic. The rules for boxes also includes what are known as "screened" material, information that is visually highlighted by colored graphics.
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(NOTE: The transcriber is cautioned to recognize that certain types of constructs (such as cartoons, organization charts, tables, and columned materials) have specific rules that must be followed. The Index of the online version of Braille Formats is useful in finding these specific formats.)
Placement of boxes can often be tricky. The transcriber has some discretion (with guidelines given in Rule 6, §3c) for placement of boxes. It is clearly in the best interest of the reader to work to put boxed material on one braille page. Boxes can, however, be divided between pages. Typically, the transcriber will repeat the title or heading of the box with the word "cont." in parentheses at the top of the second page.
Publishers also like to arrange more than one box in different ways -- side-by-side, vertically down a page, etc. The example below shows, in effect, two boxes that are side-by-side. In the braille, we treat them as if they are one box and use a full cell (dots 1-2-3-4-5-6) as a divider between the boxes:
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Keep in mind that a box is not necessarily box-shaped! This graphic:
should also be brailled with a top and bottom row of box marks (dots 2-3-5-6).
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