As within longhand, without punctuation sentances can mingle and become confusing to read back. Hence there is a limited spectrum within shorthand, which is entirely nessecary despite what some may say. Other punctuation that is not within this list is either not used in shorthand or is written in the same way as longhand punctuation, such as; commas, question marks, quation marks etc.
Full stop; a long sloping line which is written upwards, starting below the bottom line and cutting through it. It doesn't need to be perfect, it can be as large and sloppy as you like. 
Capital mark; only used for proper names as it takes time to write due to having to lift the pen from the page to include, and as such it is not used at the beginning of a new sentence. It consists of two small dashes underneath the word.
Paragraph mark; not actually necessary but used all the same, to save lines due to the amount of space one line of shorthand can take up. It uses two dashes like the one used for the full stop.
Dash; is awkward and used rarely but specifically, it looks as it does to cause the least amount of possibility to confuse it with another outline.
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