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Four systems and a survivor, grouped because a page of any of them is unreadable without knowing what carries the information. Pitman uses stroke thickness and therefore needs a pencil or a flexible nib; Gregg uses stroke length and works with any pen, which is much of why it won America; Teeline uses simplified letter shapes and is learnable in months, which is why journalists are taught it; a stenotype writes a syllable per chord and produces a phonetic code that a personal dictionary turns into English. The Tironian et is the one shorthand mark still in daily public use.
A single continuous stroke standing for a whole word in a shorthand system.
A phonetic shorthand using stroke thickness and position to carry meaning.
A phonetic shorthand using stroke length and elliptical curves, of uniform thickness.
An alphabetic shorthand built from simplified letter shapes, used by journalists.
A group of keys pressed together on a stenotype machine to write one syllable.
A mark resembling a small seven, standing for 'and' in Latin and Irish.