Tall or Small Characters

2020-10-13

Marking a character as "tall" or "small" is purely descriptive. Editorial observations concerning the significance of the character height should be marked up separately.

Panciera 1991 ...; Sosin 2011:

d<hi rend="tall">i</hi>s manibus
(Panciera)
a<hi rend="small">b</hi>c
(Panciera)
<hi rend="tall">Ὑ</hi>ψικλέους

Transformation using the example EpiDoc P5 stylesheets:

  • London style: Ὑψικλέους
(InsAph: 12.712)
<hi rend="tall">σφυρ<unclear>ε</unclear>ζμαρα</hi>

Transformation using the example EpiDoc P5 stylesheets:

  • Duke Databank style: σφυρε̣ζμαρα
(DDbDP: o.claud.4.799)

See also:

Other pages describing <hi>:

Responsibility for this section

  1. Charlotte Tupman, author

EpiDoc version: 9.2

Date: 2020-10-13