Vacat Measured in Lines

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 lines, the unit should have a value of "line".

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

<space extent="3unit="line"/>
(Panciera)
<space dim="horizontalextent="1"
 unit="line"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style:      vacat
(InsAph: 1.24)

The attribute dim is not recomended any more as the unit already gives this information.

Responsibility for this section

  1. Scott Vanderbilt, author
  2. Charlotte Tupman, author
  3. Pietro Liuzzo, author

EpiDoc version: 9.6

Date: 2024-03-20