<orig>

<orig> (original form) contains a reading which is marked as following the original, rather than being normalized or corrected. [3.5.2. Regularization and Normalization 12. Critical Apparatus]
Modulecore
Attributes
Member of
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May contain
Example

If all that is desired is to call attention to the original version in the copy text, orig may be used alone:

<l>But this will be a <orig>meere</orig> confusion</l>
<l>And hardly shall we all be <orig>vnderstoode</orig>
</l>
Example

More usually, an orig will be combined with a regularized form within a choice element:

<l>But this will be a <choice>
  <orig>meere</orig>
  <reg>mere</reg>
 </choice> confusion</l>
<l>And hardly shall we all be <choice>
  <orig>vnderstoode</orig>
  <reg>understood</reg>
 </choice>
</l>
Content model
<content>
 <macroRef key="macro.paraContent"/>
</content>
Schema Declaration
element orig { tei_att.global.attributes, tei_macro.paraContent }