Agustín Barahona wrote:

> . . . . With "ñ" we have a
> new sign different from de original one indicating that another "n"
> was not writen there but might be read. . . .

In medieval manuscripts we also very often see a bar over a vowel
to represent a following nasal (m,n) more compactly.

--
Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
"How'd ya like to climb this high *without* no mountain?" --Porky Pine