att.transcriptional

att.transcriptional provides attributes specific to elements encoding authorial or scribal intervention in a text when transcribing manuscript or similar sources. 1 The TEI Infrastructure

Module

tei — 1 The TEI Infrastructure

Members

add addSpan del delSpan restore subst

Attributes

[att.editLike ]

hand

signifies the hand of the agent which made the intervention.

Status	Optional
Datatype	<rng:ref name="data.pointer"/> data.pointer
Values	must refer to a hand element, typically declared in the document header (see section 11.4.1 Document Hands).

status

indicates the effect of the intervention, for example in the case of a deletion, strikeouts which include too much or too little text, or in the case of an addition, an insertion which duplicates some of the text already present.

Status

Optional

Datatype

<rng:ref name="data.enumerated"/>

data.enumerated

Sample values include:

duplicate	all of the text indicated as an addition duplicates some text that is in the original, whether the duplication is word-for-word or less exact.
duplicate-partial	part of the text indicated as an addition duplicates some text that is in the original
excessStart	some text at the beginning of the deletion is marked as deleted even though it clearly should not be deleted.
excessEnd	some text at the end of the deletion is marked as deleted even though it clearly should not be deleted.
shortStart	some text at the beginning of the deletion is not marked as deleted even though it clearly should be.
shortEnd	some text at the end of the deletion is not marked as deleted even though it clearly should be.
partial	some text in the deletion is not marked as deleted even though it clearly should be.
unremarkable	the deletion is not faulty. [Default]

Note

Status information on each deletion is needed rather rarely except in critical editions from authorial manuscripts; status information on additions is even less common.

Marking a deletion or addition as faulty is inescapably an interpretive act; the usual test applied in practice is the linguistic acceptability of the text with and without the letters or words in question.

seq

(sequence) assigns a sequence number related to the order in which the encoded features carrying this attribute are believed to have occurred.

Status	Mandatory when applicable
Datatype	<rng:ref name="data.count"/> data.count

P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

att.transcriptional