Lost Lines, Quantity Unknown

2024-03-20

Where lines have been lost on the original support and there is nothing to indicate to the editor how these should be restored, this is marked up as a lacuna using gap. If the number of lines is unknown, extent should be given a value of "unknown".

Panciera 1991 VIII.6; Sosin 2011: - - - - - -

<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"
 unit="line"/>
(Panciera)
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"
 unit="line"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: [·· ? ··]
(IRT: 177)
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown"
 unit="line"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Duke Databank style:
    -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
(DDbDP: bgu.12.2207)

See also:

Other pages describing <gap>:

Responsibility for this section

  1. Scott Vanderbilt, author
  2. Charlotte Tupman, author

EpiDoc version: 9.6

Date: 2024-03-20