APPENDIX: Legend and ABC helps

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T:APPENDIX: Legend and ABC helps
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W:Abbreviations:
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 MS = Manuscript (specifically the John Malchair manuscript)
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 VWML = Vaughn Williams Memorial Library
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 EFDSS = English Folk Dance and Song Society
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W:The F: headers have URL information for locating individual pages and for the MS as a whole.
W:The MS is in the possession of VWML and EFDSS.
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W:Unicode notes:
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 \\u00a0=nonbreaking space
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 \\u017f=archaic long medial ess - \u017f  (It's an s, not an f!)
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 \\u2012=figure dash - \u2012
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 \\u2013=en dash - \u2013
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 \\u2014=em dash - \u2014
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 \\u201c=opening English quotation marks - \u201c
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 \\u201d=closing English quotation marks - \u201d
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W:European Accents and Ligatures:
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 grave: \`a \`e \`i \`o \`u - \\`
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 acute: \'a \'e \'i \'o \'u \'y - \\'
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 circumflex: \^a \^e \^i \^o \^u \u0176 \u0177 - \\^ (except y-hat \\u0176 \\u0177)
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 umlaut or dier\aesis: \"a \"e \"i \"o \"u \"y - \\"
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 tilde: \~a \~n \~o - \\~
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 cedilla, ring, slash, breve, caret: \cc \aa \/o \ua \ue \vs \vz - \\cc \\aa \\/o \\u \\v
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 ligatures (ash, --, ess-tzet, eth, thorn): \ae \oe \ss \dh \th - \\ae \\oe \\ss \\dh \\th
W:\u00a0 \u00a0 hungarumlaut or double acute: \Ho \Hu - \\H