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Hi, Teddy ... I really like your dictionary https://teddyyjc.github.io/shorthand.html. I wanted to let you know about another English-to-Gregg resource, http://steno.tu-clausthal.de/Gregg.php. That one does ligatures, phrasing, and some brief forms. The author, Sarman, of that software has also published slides from a talk wherein he shows his adventures with metafont, but I do not currently have a link to those slides.

My proposal to you is two-fold: (1) to work with me and with him to build a Gregg-to-English translator. I believe such will be possible by domain-randomization on the output of Sarman's translator to simulate the variations that would be generated by human hands. In theory, one might run 10^6+ books from the public domain to work up a corpus for training Gregg OCR neural nets a-la Yann LeCun 1988. I wrote a letter to Sarman asking him to open-source his software and data so that one might build new software from it or on it, but Sarman did not respond to me. If you became interested and wrote to him as well, perhaps he might be more motivated. (2) To open-source your software and data for similar reasons: so that one might build new software from it and on it. I see that you have some software here, but it doesn't look like your dictionary. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough.