I am currently studying realtime stenography, and in making my own review materials, I have come to a point where it would be VERY useful to use LaTeX to typeset in the particular typographic style used in publishing stenography…does anyone know where I could find a LaTeX package or template that would help me do this using, say, Scrivener as my text editor?
[Tex/LaTex] Does anyone know if there is a LaTeX package for writing in steno
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I wanted to try and tackle this question because I saw many solutions based on a dedicated font, and I thought: “Why use a font when you have perfectly good \vrule’s with TeX”. And so (in plain-tex):
\def\barcode#1#2#3#4#5#6#7{\begingroup%
\dimen0=0.1em
\def\stack##1##2{\oalign{##1\cr\hidewidth##2\hidewidth}}%
\def\0##1{\kern##1\dimen0}%
\def\1##1{\vrule height10ex width##1\dimen0}%
\def\L##1{\ifcase##1\bc3211##1\or\bc2221##1\or\bc2122##1\or\bc1411##1%
\or\bc1132##1\or\bc1231##1\or\bc1114##1\or\bc1312##1\or\bc1213##1%
\or\bc3112##1\fi}%
\def\R##1{\bgroup\let\next\1\let\1\0\let\0\next\L##1\egroup}%
\def\G##1{\bgroup\let\bc\bcg\L##1\egroup}% reverse
\def\bc##1##2##3##4##5{\stack{\0##1\1##2\0##3\1##4}##5}%
\def\bcg##1##2##3##4##5{\stack{\0##4\1##3\0##2\1##1}##5}%
\def\bcR##1##2##3##4##5##6{\R##1\R##2\R##3\R##4\R##5\R##6\11\01\11\09%
\endgroup}%
\stack{\09}#1\11\01\11\L#2%
\ifcase#1\L#3\L#4\L#5\L#6\L#7\or\L#3\G#4\L#5\G#6\G#7%
\or\L#3\G#4\G#5\L#6\G#7\or\L#3\G#4\G#5\G#6\L#7%
\or\G#3\L#4\L#5\G#6\G#7\or\G#3\G#4\L#5\L#6\G#7%
\or\G#3\G#4\G#5\L#6\L#7\or\G#3\L#4\G#5\L#6\G#7%
\or\G#3\L#4\G#5\G#6\L#7\or\G#3\G#4\L#5\G#6\L#7%
\fi\01\11\01\11\01\bcR}
\barcode 7046260816138
\bye
Which looks like: 
Years ago I created a conference programme manual with the help of LaTeX. We used a self-developed online tool for the different sessions, so I asked the developer to give me a list of all days, rooms, session and presentations. I fed this list into my own MySQL database and with the help of PHP generated a series of SQL statements querying the days, rooms, sessions, etc. I generated then the necessary LaTeX code and pasted this directly into the programme. The big advantage was that with any change in the original database I just had to rerun my scripts.
If you are interested, have a look at the file http://uweziegenhagen.de/compstat/final8.pdf
Best Answer
I am not sure if steno is related to Pitman shorthand, but you might want to check out the manual if it is of use to you: http://www.tug.org/tugboat/tb30-3/tb96sarman.pdf