Cyrillic Titlo Left Half

It starts a titlo across several Church Slavonic letters.

This overmark can show that the covered letters stand for a number, that letters have been left out of a word, or that a sacred name is abbreviated. The surrounding letters reveal which reading applies.

Multi-letter titlos appear in early Church Slavonic manuscripts, including Sava’s Book and the Codex Suprasliensis, an early manuscript, from the 11th century. They also appear in icon inscriptions and scholarly editions. Older manuscripts use titlo, pokrytie, and vzmet more interchangeably; modern Church Slavonic uses a different mark, pokrytie, as a cap over raised titlo letters.

how do I type a titlo over several letters

Put this half on the first letter and the right half on the last.

Place this mark after the first letter in the text and the right half after the last; use the conjoining mark after each letter in between. A lone left half leaves the span unfinished.

Joining and positioning the marks across letters of different widths is font-dependent. Some fonts replace the sequence with one display glyph, which can keep PDF text extraction from preserving the original marks.