On Apr 2, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Peter Teeson wrote: > On 2012-04-02, at 8:46 AM, vincent habchi wrote: >> Le 2 avr. 2012 à 14:37, "Reaves, Timothy" <trea...@silverfieldstech.com> a >> écrit : >>> He wants to write an app that will take a picture of shorthand and turn it >>> into text. >> Stenography (Greek stenos-: reduced) is an obsolete system of script >> secretaries used to take notes on the fly. >> I’m not sure, but I think it is a syllabic script. I don’t think anybody >> uses it anymore: it has been superseded by Siri :) > Indeed. I had a secretary who knew both Pitman and Gregg stenography methods. > That dates me for sure. > (She would then go to a typewriter to produce the letter or article - > hehehehe) > Perhaps a current use of a similar mechanism would be a court reporter or the > Congressional floor reporters > walking around to each person speaking. >> Steganography comes from Greek steganos, roof, wherefore it’s use for >> obfuscated communications. > Fascinating article.. thanks.
Well, there is some crossover - some stenographers had a style so idiosyncratic that only they could read it. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
