Frontmatter -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Preface -- Plates and Credits -- Transcription and Transliteration -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Note on Examples -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- Bibliography -- 1. Sources and their Historical Context -- I. The Graphemic Inventory -- 2. Consonantal Graphemes -- 3. Vowel Graphemes -- 4. Grammatical Graphemes -- 5. Editorial, Liturgical and Musical Graphemes -- 6. Ancient Prosodic Graphemes or Accents -- 7. Numbering Systems -- II. Graphotactics, Writing, and Ductus -- 8. Graphotactics -- 9. Writing -- 10. Ductus -- III. Garšūnography, Adaptation, and Alloglottography -- 11. Garšūnography I: Syriac as the Target Script -- 12. Garšūnography II: Syriac as the Source Language -- 13. Nongaršūnographic Adaptations of the Syriac Script -- 14. Alloglottography -- IV. Technological Developments -- 15. Lithography and Mimeography -- 16. Typewriters -- 17. Digital Typography -- 18. Coding Standards -- General Index -- Authority Index -- Biblical Citations -- CV Patterns -- Grammatical & Technical Terms -- Graph Index -- Manuscripts Index -- Word Index -- Quotations Index