Editing Neo-Latin (section)

===Characters===
In spelling, Neo-Latin, in all but the earliest texts, distinguishes the letter ''[[u]]'' from ''[[v]]'' and ''[[i]]'' from ''[[j]]''. In older texts printed down to {{circa|1630}}, ''v'' was used in initial position (even when it represented a vowel, e.g. in ''vt'', later printed ''ut'') and ''u'' was used elsewhere, e.g. in ''nouus'', later printed ''novus''. By the mid-17th century, the letter ''v'' was commonly used for the consonantal sound of Roman V, which in most pronunciations of Latin in the Neo-Latin period was {{IPA|[v]}} (and not {{IPA|[w]}}), as in ''vulnus'' "wound", ''corvus'' "crow". Where the pronunciation remained {{IPA|[w]}}, as after ''g'', ''q'' and ''s'', the spelling ''u'' continued to be used for the consonant, e.g. in ''lingua'', ''qualis'', and ''suadeo''.

The letter ''j'' generally represented a consonantal sound (pronounced in various ways in different European countries, e.g. {{IPA|[j]}}, {{IPA|[dʒ]}}, {{IPA|[ʒ]}}, {{IPA|[x]}}). It appeared, for instance, in ''jam'' "already" or ''jubet'' "he/she orders" (earlier spelled ''iam'' and ''iubet'').
It was also found between vowels in the words ''ejus'', ''hujus'', ''cujus'' (earlier spelled ''eius, huius, cuius''), and pronounced as a consonant; likewise in such forms as ''major'' and ''pejor''. ''J'' was also used when the last in a sequence of two or more ''i'''s, e.g. ''radij'' (now spelled ''radii'') "rays", ''alijs'' "to others", ''iij'', the Roman numeral 3; however, ''ij'' was for the most part replaced by ''ii'' by 1700.

In common with texts in other languages using the Roman alphabet, Latin texts down to {{circa|1800}} used the letter-form ''ſ'' (the ''[[long s]]'') for ''s'' in positions other than at the end of a word; e.g. ''ipſiſſimus''.

The digraphs ''ae'' and ''oe'' were typically written using the ligatures ''æ'' and ''œ'' (e.g. ''Cæsar'', ''pœna'') except when part of a word in all capitals, such as in titles, chapter headings, or captions. More rarely (and usually in 16th- to early 17th-century texts) the [[e caudata]] was used as a substitute for the digraphs.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}