- TEI definition: gap ; EpiDoc-specific
customization: gap
Where vestiges of text remain, but they are to be measured in units other than 'character' or 'line', they should be placed in a gap and given a reason with a value of "illegible" and a unit of "cm" or whatever unit the editor requires.
Panciera 1991 VIII.2; Sosin 2011: [...]
<gap reason="illegible" extent="4.2"
unit="cm"/>(Panciera)
See also:
Other pages describing <gap>:
- Words Omitted by Editor for Brevity
- Erased and Lost
- Foreign Ellipsis
- Illegible Characters, Quantity Approximate (Circa or Range)
- Illegible Characters, Quantity Known
- Illegible Characters, Quantity Unknown
- Illegible Lines, Quantity Approximate (Circa or Range)
- Illegible Lines, Quantity Known
- Illegible Lines, Quantity Unknown
- Editorial restoration: Segmented or adjacent lacunae
- Lost characters, quantity approximate
- Lost characters, quantity known
- Lost Characters, Metre Known/Reconstructed
- Lost Characters, Numeral
- Lost characters, praenomen
- Lost characters, quantity unknown
- Lost Lines, Quantity Approximate (Circa or Range)
- Lost lines, quantity known
- Lost Lines, Quantity Unknown
- Lacunas, Other Units
- Possible Illegible Characters/Lines
- Lines Possibly Lost / Text Possibly Breaks
- Editorial restoration: Word incompletely restored
- Editorial restoration: example or illustrative supplement
- Text not completed (omission not restored)
Responsibility for this section
Scott Vanderbilt, author
Charlotte Tupman, author