Vacat Measured in Characters

2024-03-20

Space left on stone

A space should be used wherever there is an intentional space left on the support: i.e. a space that never contained text (vacat). If the space is measured in characters, the unit should have a value of "character".

Panciera 1991 XI.2; Sosin 2011: (vac.3)

<space quantity="1" unit="character"/>
(Panciera)
<space quantity="3" unit="character"/>
(Panciera)
<space quantity="1" unit="character"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: v
(IRT: 993)
<space quantity="16" unit="character"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Duke Databank style: ⁦ vac. 16⁩
(DDbDP: p.narm.2006.4)

See also:

Other pages describing <space>:

Responsibility for this section

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

EpiDoc version: 9.6

Date: 2024-03-20