This index to the EpiDoc Guidelines groups together links to all the sections that provide guidance and examples for marking up aspects of text itself (as opposed to the materiality and history of the objects upon which they appear, for which see the List of All Supporting Data Guidelines). These sections address not only transcription in the technical sense of reporting readings and representing the writing system(s), but also the form, appearance, and layout of the text and its characters, as well as other editorial interventions in the text such as supplementation, regularization, and identification of numerals and the like.
A note on Diplomatic Transcription.
A note on whitespace handling.
Transcription
- Clear text
- Uninterpreted characters (Leiden uppercase)
- Ambiguous characters (Leiden underdot)
- Ambiguous characters with alternatives offered
- Damaged characters (but readable)
- Erased but legible text
- Erased and illegible but restored
- Erased and lost
- Marked for deletion by slashes etc.
- Text struck over erasure
- Ancient correction, both original and new text read
- Ancient correction, original illegible or lost
- Text added by ancient hand
- Text added with sling etc.
- Illegible characters, quantity known
- Illegible characters, quantity unknown
- Illegible characters, quantity approximate
- Illegible lines, quantity known
- Illegible lines, quantity unknown
- Illegible lines, quantity approximate
- Possible illegible lines
- Illegible text, other units
- Lost characters, quantity known
- Lost characters, quantity unknown
- Lost characters, quantity approximate
- Lost characters, quantity extrapolated (e.g. praenomen or number)
- Lost characters, metre reconstructed
- Lost characters, numeral
- Lost lines, quantity known
- Lost lines, quantity unknown
- Lost lines, quantity approximate
- Lines possibly lost / text possibly breaks
- Lacuna, other units
- Vacat, measured in characters (horizontal space)
- Vacat, measured in lines (vertical space)
- Vacat, measured in other units
- Possible vacat
- Change in scribe or hand
- Text not completed (omission not restored)
Responsibility for this section
Gabriel Bodard, Author
Charlotte Tupman, Author
Tom Elliott, Author