Alf Gandson wrote:

>
> Hello
>
> How to classify stenography? At least the
> Stolze-Schrey system should be an alphabet as every
> consonant and every vowel has its own representation.
> But these representations work in a totally different
> way, consonants are represented with "signs", but
> vowels with the kind of the linking between two
> consonant signs. As one feature which differentiates
> vowel signs, its thickness (hope you get what I mean),
> falls only into the consonant signs, all the vowel
> representations could be considered consonant sign
> modifications. But then, it can't be called an
> alphabet any longer...

Pitman and Gregg are Featural (in Sampson's sense). I suppose this one
is similar.

Remember: I REFUSE to be drawn into hairsplitting attempts to pigeonhole
every possible script into a rigidly specific Type.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...