- TEI definition: gap ; EpiDoc-specific
customization: gap
- TEI definition: certainty ; EpiDoc-specific
customization: certainty
Where vestiges of characters or lines possibly remain, but they cannot be recognised and their quantity is unknown, a gap should be used, and given a reason attribute with a value of "illegible" and an extent with a value of "unknown". To express uncertainty as to whether or not an illegible character or line is actually present, a certainty with a match corresponding to the parent element (i.e. the gap) should be given a locus with a value of "name".
Panciera 1991 VIII.7; Sosin 2011: [- - -?]
<gap reason="illegible" extent="unknown"
unit="line"> <certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>(Panciera)
<gap reason="illegible" extent="unknown"
unit="character"> <certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>(Panciera)
<gap reason="illegible" quantity="3"
unit="character"> <certainty match=".." locus="name"/></gap>Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:
- Duke Databank style: ? ̣ ̣ ̣
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 Approximate (Circa or Range)
- Lost lines, quantity known
- Lost Lines, Quantity Unknown
- Lacunas, Other Units
- Lines Possibly Lost / Text Possibly Breaks
- Editorial restoration: Word incompletely restored
- Editorial restoration: example or illustrative supplement
- Text not completed (omission not restored)
Other pages describing <certainty>:
Responsibility for this section
Scott Vanderbilt, author
Charlotte Tupman, author