Congrats and thanks to DaveO for a fine exposition of the problems of his profession.

One of the problems that some courts were finding in my area a few years ago came from some reporters/recorders who were not quite so thorough. One judge was lamenting a rather large number of stenographic records that had never been transcribed from the shorthand - and they were so old they were in Pitman, which nobody - even then, a decade ago - could read. A current case that referred back to them was pretty much locked out of having them reviewed.

(The Pitman system died, replaced by Greg, because one cannot write Pitman with anything but a fountain pen - or goose quill.)

John