32. The method of claim 31 further comprising the steps of using a stenographic keyboard to generate the series of stroke symbols and controlling the operation of a utlization means interconnected to the steno translator system in response to depression of the keys on the stenographic keyboard to generate control stroke symbols.
31. The method of claim 25 further comprising the steps of: generating a series of stroke symbols including the step of generating the sequence of lexical stroke symbols, from a set of lexical stroke symbols, and the step of generating at least one control stroke symbol, from a defined set of control stroke symbols, the control stroke symbols being different from the set of lexical stroke symbols, the control stroke symbols defining an instruction set for controlling operation of a steno translator system; and identifying the stroke symbols as either lexical stroke symbols or control stroke symbols and applying the control stroke symbols for controlling operation of the steno translator system.