Hi Graham and Phil,

On 12/05/2016, 3:28 AM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Graham King" 
<[email protected] on behalf of 
[email protected]> wrote:

  
Strictly speaking, I think we're talking about a macron, rather than a tilda.  
It's not just macrons of course: Phil is dabbling in the wonderful world of 
scribal abbreviations. 

I agree. I think it’s a macron indicating an elided n or m that Phil has got.

An introduction to scribal abbreviations, a very fascinating rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation

Andrew



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