Re: Annotated writing (was Re: b...

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Sun Dec 12 1999 - 16:16:21 EST

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Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com scripsit:

> I suspect that accents, German umlaute and the Spanish tilde on "n" could
> have evolved from similar annotation practices.

Yes to some of those. German umlaut is an "e", Spanish/Portuguese tilde
is an "n".

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