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The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
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I spent a few hours of free time these last few weeks putting together a Gregg font, to see what would happen and how difficult it would be. The answer: pretty difficult. But the result doesn't look too bad, does it: http://gregg.angelfishy.net/greggfont.pdf . I am calling the font "Winifred," since it is entirely based on Richmond's handwriting.
Great! This installed fine. Thank you so much. 🙂
Oh my! It looks beautiful!!!!
Thank you for reposting this. I couldn't get to it on the old post.
Looks like there will be a bit of a learning curve to using it, but if I minded that, I wouldn't have taken up shorthand in the first place.
When I right click to save it, it tries to save it as an html file. I then tried just clicking the ttf link and I see some garbled source file. Any help?
I'm using Chrome and I tried Safari. It didn't work on either. Javascript is on as well (not sure if that's relevant).
Which browser are you using?
OK, here's how to do it in Chrome:
1. Click with the right mouse button on the file name.
2. Choose Save link as …. The "Save As" window will appear.
3. Choose the directory in which you want to save the files.
4. On the bottom, in the Save as type: pull down menu, choose either JPEG Image for the first file, or All Files for the TTF file.
5. In the File Name: entry box, if the file has an htm extension, replace it with either jpg (for the first file) or ttf (for the second file) if necessary.
6. Click Save.
Doesn't your font use OpenType or something? All I see is a bunch of (mostly) overlapping strokes, no real joinings. What's going on??
Alright. I might have to pull out my FontForge and make one of my own, with joinings this time.
But why does the PDF show joined strokes?
http://gregg.angelfishy.net/greggfont.pdf
hmmm… Seems like this would be good for Greggory, so I only have to do the converting part and not the actual writing part.
I think the font is just a collection of strokes corresponding to the letters of the language. I don't think there are any joinings.
Which pdf?
That's not from the same font. I think Andrew was playing with Adobe software and created a different font. He hasn't released it.
You can use spaces (sometimes many spaces) to keep the strokes from overlapping. If you have some kind of spelling or grammar check, it will yell at you. It's also tedious to do, but you can cobble something together this way. : )
I figured out I might just have to make my own anyway…
EDIT: I *am* making my own shorthand font with FontForge, though I am still working on the joinings.
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