Talk:Louis Braille/Archive 3

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Capitalization

It's very important to the flow of this page that the language 'braille' is in lower case, despite technically being a proper noun, and the name "Louis Braille" or simply "Braille" is in capital letters. This, if done consistently, makes telling the two apart a little simpler for the editor and the reader. --Theone3 12:38, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Added a notice at the bottom of the article to such effect. --Theone3 13:42, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't know how to make this a new item in the table of contents, so I'll have to add it here... Would it be possible to get a reference section in the article containing A-Z and 0-9 in their raised dot forms? Sorry for not following the format of the message board -arthur_toafk@yahoo.com-

Follow the link to Braille in the first line of the article. -- To get a new item in the TOC, click the "new section" tab (formerly labeled "+") --Thnidu (talk) 03:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Anglocentric Viewpoint?

In the "Legacy" section, as of Jan 07, it says "The significance of the braille system was not identified until 1868, when Dr. Thomas Armitage, along with a group of four blind men, established the British and Foreign Society for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind". This imples that the system initially fell out of use in France. How good is our evidence for this? There's no hint of that in the equivalent French Wikipedia article. --Farry 14:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

The claims made in the article are false, at least according to the pretty detailed online text by Lorimer . Don't be surprised. Wikipedia is literally packed with such "patriotic" statements. L'omo del batocio (talk) 14:18, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

The first significant braille publishing house was in Kentucky, so there may have been problems in France in the early years. — kwami (talk) 05:16, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Publications

The dates for his publications are all over the place. I added a few in a new section, but wonder if the 2nd and 4th might not be duplicates. (Only the 1st is certain, because we have photographs.) Can anyone check this? — kwami (talk) 05:16, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

His works were mostly monographs, often revised and republished. Braille is not remembered as an author per se, and a complete bulleted listing of all his printed works is outside the scope of this article. A paragraph about his writing and the identification of a few key titles should suffice, I think, but feel free to contribute more there as necessary. SteveStrummer (talk) 04:31, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Gold coins in honor of Louis Brailei

Croatian writer Giancarlo Kravar: Croatian National Bank issued in 2009. the commemorative gold coin of 10 kuna (HRK Croatia's national currency) and in honor of the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Brailei, creator of the script for the blind. According to Croatian daily 24-hour, on-site coin display the human finger pads and the name "Louis Braila" written script for the blind. Although this money only occasional importance, it is the only one in the world where money and blind people can feel. 78.2.117.95 (talk) 00:46, 2 September 2012 (UTC)