- TEI definition: gap ; EpiDoc-specific
customization: gap
Where lines appear to be missing but the editor is unsure as to the precise number of lines that have been lost, this is expressed using gap, which should either be given a precision with the value "low" (to express 'circa'), or be given a range of possible lines lost using the atLeast and atMost.
Panciera 1991 VIII.5; Sosin 2011: [- - - - - -]
<gap reason="lost" quantity="1" unit="line"
precision="low"/>(Panciera)
<gap reason="lost" atLeast="3" atMost="5"
unit="line"/>(Panciera)
<gap reason="lost" unit="line" quantity="6"
precision="low"/>Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:
- Duke Databank style: [ca.6 lines missing]
<gap reason="lost" atLeast="1" atMost="2"
unit="line"/>Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:
- Duke Databank style: [1-2 lines missing]
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
- Illegible text, other units (e.g. cm)
- 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 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