william bright wrote:

>
> in all the discussion of "featural" systems, i find it strange that there
> is so little mention of pitman shorthand or gregg shorthand, which were
> once used daily by thousands of people. daniels' article in WL&L pp. 807
> ff. discusses them, and he illustrates gregg but not pitman.
>
> both these systems were partly "featural", pitman i think more than gregg.
> pitman was used by some people when i was growing up, and gregg until at
> least the 1960s. they even used to be printed, in textbooks for
> stenographers.
>
> these systems may not relevant to present-day typographic concerns, but
> they are certainly relevant to the typology and history of writing systems.
> cheers; bill

Pitman ruled in the UK, Gregg in the US, except, curiously, in NYC,
where he moved to after his office in Chicago burned up (not in the
Great Fire, that was back in '71).

Pitman is shown on pp. 812-13.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...