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1829 braille, the Glossary

Louis Braille's original publication, Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots (1829), credits Barbier's night writing as being the basis for the braille script.^[1]

Accidental (music)

In musical notation, an accidental is a symbol that indicates an alteration of a given pitch.

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Apostrophe

The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.

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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.

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Braille Patterns

The Unicode block Braille Patterns (U+2800..U+28FF) contains all 256 possible patterns of an 8-dot braille cell, thereby including the complete 6-dot cell range.

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Clef

A clef (from French: clef 'key') is a musical symbol used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff.

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Colon (punctuation)

The colon,, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically.

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The ConScript Unicode Registry is a volunteer project to coordinate the assignment of code points in the Unicode Private Use Areas (PUA) for the encoding of artificial scripts, such as those for constructed languages.

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Decimal separator

A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form (e.g., "." in 12.45).

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Division sign

The division sign is a mathematical symbol consisting of a short horizontal line with a dot above and another dot below, used in Anglophone countries to indicate the operation of division.

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English Braille

English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille, is the braille alphabet used for English. 1829 braille and English Braille are braille.

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French Braille

French Braille is the original braille alphabet, and the basis of all others.

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Guillemet

Guillemets (also) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, and, used as quotation marks in a number of languages.

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Hyphen

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word.

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Louis Braille

Louis Braille (4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. 1829 braille and Louis Braille are braille.

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Multiplication sign

The multiplication sign, also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is a mathematical symbol used to denote the operation of multiplication, which results in a product.

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Night writing

Night writing is the name given to a form of tactile writing invented by Charles Barbier de la Serre (1767-1841).

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Plainsong

Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French plain-chant; cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church.

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Plus–minus sign

The plus–minus sign or plus-or-minus sign,, is a symbol with multiple meanings.

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Shorthand

Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.

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