Dear Stewart,
When it is used for an n, as it is most frequent in Spanish, it is called a nunnation sign (i.e. the sign that indicates the addition of a final n). With all my best wishes , Antonio ----- Original Message ---- From: Stewart McCoy <[email protected]> To: Lute Net <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 29 December, 2009 14:03:59 Subject: [LUTE] Little Lines Dear All, A friend of mine has asked me this question: When a seventeenth-century copyist abbreviated a word and indicated it by writing a line over the last letter, rather than a dot after it (e.g. Preludiu for Preludium), is there a proper term to refer to that line? I don't now the answer. Can anyone help? Stewart McCoy. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
