This section is from the book "The Manual of Phonography", by Benn Pitman And Jerome B. Howard. Also available from Amazon: The Manual of Phonography.
The same marks of punctuation are used in phonography as in longhand except the period , the exclamation mark , the dash and the hyphen . The comma should be written with a carefully-shaded dot that it may not be mistaken for the logogram would. The parenthesis should be written either decidedly long - longer than double-length th or s - or with a short cross stroke . . A second form of the period , of the quotation mark and of the interrogation mark is sometimes used by reporters. The hyphen is not used in writing compound words in phonography when the outlines of the component words join readily. Thus, words like day-book and air-gun are written with single outlines. In words like chain-gang, cast-off, the hyphen may be used.
Properly speaking, there is no such thing as capitalization in phonography, but a proper noun or adjective may be indicated by underscoring it twice ; thus,
Except the grammalogues one, two, three, six, ten. twelve, figures are best expressed by the Arabic numerals. Ordinals may generally be expressed by Arabic cardinals, except first, second, third, sixth, tenth, twelfth, which should be written phonographically.
Exercise on the Final-hook Logograms.
 
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