Frontmatter -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- Quantitative analysis of writing systems: an -- introduction -- II. The phoneme-grapheme relation -- The phoneme-grapheme relationship in -- Italian -- Graphemic representation of English -- phonemes -- The phoneme-grapheme relationship in -- Slovene -- On the distribution of graphemic -- representations -- The phoneme-grapheme relation in Slovak -- III. Special problems -- Script ornamentality -- On the decrease of complexity from hieroglyphs to -- hieratic symbols -- The fractal dimension of script: an -- experiment -- On graphemic representation of the Oriya -- phonemes -- On the relation between types and tokens of -- Japanese morae -- IV. Towards a theory -- Towards a theory of script -- Backmatter