Re: Using strings and other types to return markup

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Andrew Bernard" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: Using strings and other types to return markup


> Hi Phil,
>
> On 11/05/2016, 9:12 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Phil Holmes" 
> <address@hidden on behalf of 
> address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > 2.  It's a bit more complicated, though.  16th century printers have a 
> > habit
> > of eliding an n from a word and instead putting what looks like (but might
> > not be) a tiny tilde above the previous letter to show this.
>
> I was also wondering why you were not using Unicode. Anyway, do you have 
> any images showing examples of this 16c practice? I would be interested to 
> have a look. This is, as you say, a different requirement to using a fixed 
> unicode glyph from a font. I think I have seen similar practice in 18c 
> English printed text, but I don’t think the wiggles that I have seen are 
> tildes as such. You are reaLly after something for text glyphs that is 
> similar to an ornament on a note glyph.
>
> Now that I come to think of it, there is a vast typographic tradition of 
> putting symbols on top of letters to mean various abbreviations, for 
> example the old No. with a bar over the o to mean the abbreviation for 
> number. A really interesting topic. The scheme code is definitely worth 
> having in hand.


Here we go - late C16 (1597 to be precise).  Note also the abbreviated 
"ye" - I think this is a tiny "e" above the "y".

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Phil Holmes

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