An abbreviation that includes a mark of some kind, such as an additional letter or mark of punctuation, that will not appear in the expanded form. This is often omitted in conventional editions, but may be useful to include in a digital transcription, for example for inclusion in a diplomatic rendering.
Any characters or symbols that appear in the abbreviated form on the support (abbr), but do not form part of the fully expended word (expan), should be included within the abbr element, and should additionally be enclosed in an am (abbreviation mark) element. In the default XSLT transformation, for example, this will result in the content of the am being omitted from the interpretive transcription, but included in the diplomatic edition. (The first example below, therefore, would appear as "Aug(usti duo)" in interpretive, as "AVGG" in diplomatic.)
Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:
The following examples use type in g, as this has been in use in past project providing these examples. Please see Symbol (Non Meaning-Bearing) for the recommended use of <g[@ref]>.
Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:
Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:
Other pages describing <expan>:
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Other pages describing <am>:
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Other pages describing <g>: