Francisco of Paula Martí is a Spanish shorthand writer , born in 1761 with Xàtiva and deceased in 1827 with Lisbon.

It published its first work of Sténographie Spanish itself to Madrid, in 1803, under the title “Tachigrafia castellana, O arte to escribir idiot tanta velocidad como habla there idiot the misma claridad that común will escritura it”. While having given to its work an original character, Martí had taken as a starting point much Taylor and by Jean Coulon de Thévenot. Its first test, gone back to 1800, was also a more literal adaptation of Taylor.

In 1804, after having professed his course during one year, the author made there some small modifications such as suppression of the Voyelle I (except in certain cases), increase in the terminations, representation of the pronouns prefixes, precision of the rules for certain doubtful examples, etc These reforms obliged it to publish a supplement with his first edition; the number of the terminations, in particular, was increased from 14 to 18, then to 17.

The three following editions appeared in 1813,1821 and 1824; it different so to speak not from/to each other. One of these editions contains a drawing of the hand of Martí, with inscriptions in shorthand characters. The introducer of the shorthand in Spain, born with Xàtiva (known as then " San Felipe" , Valence) in 1761 (of others say in 1762), belonged to an easy family. It had much taste for engraving and one preserved of him, daN his land native, several works which attest its ability.

Its literary work and several dramatic works acquired a certain reputation to him, but it is with the shorthand that it had to pass to the posterity.

Its taquigraphic research conquered to him the title of member of Real Sociedad Económica Matritense.

In 1808, it also published in Madrid a treaty on Poligraphie or “Art to write in figures various ways”, according to several old authors, in particular Trithème.

It had two children. His/her son, Angel Ramón Martí, introduced in 1820 the system of his father to the Portugal with the assistance of Pedro Barinaga, who published in Naples, in 1828, an adaptation to the language Italian.

Ramón Martí long enough directed the “Diario de Sesiones” with the assistance of invaluable collaborators. It published also a method of musical shorthand.

The girl of Martí, María, married Sebastián Eugenio Vela, the preferred pupil of her father.

Of a delicate health, shorthand writer celebrates it died in Lisbon in July 1827.