How to romanize the title of a book entitled Sefer Mahaneh [dalet - nun sofit] by David ben Avraham Nahmias?
This matter is addressed in HCM, p. 31: "Other [that is, other
than acronyms in common use and rabbinic names like Rashi] Hebrew abbreviations
that are in common usage as words are ... romanized as such." This
fits the above case: "Dan" (or "dan") is certainly "in common usage
as a word". We simply, then, "romanize them as such," and take no
notice of the
geresh in romanization (though of course we include it in vernacular
transcriptions).