• TEI definition: g ; EpiDoc-specific customization: g
• TEI definition: glyph ; EpiDoc-specific customization: glyph
• TEI definition: mapping ; EpiDoc-specific customization: mapping
• TEI definition: prefixDef ; EpiDoc-specific customization: prefixDef

g (character or glyph) represents a non-standard character or glyph.

Where a symbol is non meaning-bearing, it should be represented using the element g, with the following attribute:

• ref pointing to a glyph listed in charDecl.
• in the past many projects used type.

A Unicode character representing the symbol may also appear inside the g if desired.

The ref attribute in g can be used in various ways.

The following encoding

exepcts that a charDecl is present in the document. This will look like the following.

You may add this to your files, or include it as appropriate. A list is available with the example stylesheets (with variable solutions according to the parameters settings), which is used as a default where charDecl is not explicitly added in the XML file.

You may wish to point to this list of glyphs in a separate file, in which case you can use in ref of g a path to this resource.

If you use prefixes, defined in prefixDef, you may use a shorthand. Assuming you have defined this prefix to be glyph, you may use

The full path or prefixed method allows also to define different sources for your charDecl, so that you may only have to add the one which are missing, unless you want to contribute them directly to the default charDecl in the stylesheet repository.

Panciera 1991 19: ((crux))

Dohnicht 4: ⊂crux⊃

Sosin 2011: /

SEG: dr.

The projects providing the following examples used type when this was the suggested way of encoding.