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I realise that to most these posts don't even register; between the magnitude that is the internet and that the instructions so far are just the basic rules and no actual shorthand so far, however writing shorthand cannot become before understanding these due to the utter nonsense it would make otherwise. Anyhow, remembering these rules and then the alphabet and trying to put them into practise together is awkward and tedious, although needed to properly write anything, despite how much I would prefer shorthand to be like the secret codes we used to write and pass as notes in junior school.

Well anyway, onto the basics of reading and writing Teeline Shorthand...
There are the general rules of of characters which apply to all writings, which are;

1- Keeping the characters size and shape is important. as some can be mistaken for others such as 'n' and 'p', particularly when the characters are not disjoined. This is also to be taken into account when small sized letters are in use such as 'c' and 'v', they are around half the size of other characters, and are easily misplaced, right along side 's' and 'z', whose characters are merely small circles, where the only differentiation is a tail.

2 - Do take note of where the characters appear on the page, whether that is; on, above or through the writing line, which leads to the point that lined paper is best for shorthand due to the fact that the characters revolve around said lines. Otherwise some characters can be misread due to being essentially the same with only their positions as a differential, such as 't' and 'd'.

3 - Shorthand is read top to bottom and left to right. Which is less confusing than it sounds; only that the characters are read left to right like usual but as the character built up into a longer word they link together and an individual character would be read depending on the height of the character to the start point.

It should also be noted that Full sized vertical letters, such as 'b', 'h', and 'l' must stand on the line, whereas Smaller sized letters, 'c','v', or Horizontal letters, 'm', 'w', may be written higher so the next character can stand in its correct position.

For example in the situation of a word beginning with 'd' which must be written from a start point on the line, otherwise it could be mistaken for beginning with a 't'.

Another area in which the characters could be shifted from their respective position is in the case , for example, of 'g' and 'j' which are written through a line at the beginning of a word. However if they come at any other time in a word they are shifted depending on the proceeding letter.

4 - Teeline characters are formed through joining together multiple characters as you would in joining your handwriting, although there are no linking devices, such as the loop between 'q' and 'u'. A word is written by using the end of the first character as the beginning of the next, this sometimes means that the word is read down the page, from top to bottom, before continuing to the next word to the right of the previous.