Text Struck Over Erasure

2024-03-20

Where text has been erased and overstruck or corrected, it should be placed inside a subst. Inside the subst, the erased text should be placed within a del, and the correction or overstrike inside an add, which should have a place with a value of "overstrike".

Panciera 1991 VI.1: <<abc>>

Sosin 2011: abc

<add place="overstrike">abc</add>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Default (Panciera) style: «abc»
  • Duke Databank style: abc
(Panciera)
<subst>
 <add place="overstrike">αβγ</add>
 <del>δεζ</del>
</subst>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Default (Panciera) style: «αβγ»
  • Duke Databank style: αβγ
(Sosin)
<add place="overstrike">
 <space dim="horizontal" extent="7"/>
 <g type="scroll"/>
 <w lemma="ῥώννυμι">ἔρρωσο</w>
</add>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: «vac scroll ἔρρωσο»
(InsAph: 9.43)
<subst>
 <del rend="erasure">Imilchonis</del>
 <add place="overstrike">Himilcho</add>
</subst>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: «Himilcho»
(IRT: 319)

See also:

Other pages describing <subst>:

Other pages describing <add>:

Responsibility for this section

  1. Scott Vanderbilt, author
  2. Gabriel Bodard, author
  3. Charlotte Tupman, author

EpiDoc version: 9.6

Date: 2024-03-20