"Its essence is a brief way of representing the letters of the ordinary alphabet ... the shorthand substitutes a set of brief signs, a few of them cut-down forms of the ordinary letters, but the majority straight lines and simple curves. These symbols serve for constants in all positions ...
SHARK2 creates partially scale and translation invariant sokgraphs in a large vocabulary, similar to the word level shorthand symbols common in classic pen-based stenography for the most common words. However, in classic stenography a large part of the labor in high speed text writing is in ...