Text Encoding Initiative

Supplied text

Where a word has been supplied by the editor, the <supplied> tag can be used. It is customary to distinguish between text now illegible or lost through damage but assumed originally to have been in the manuscript, and text assumed to have been inadvertently omitted by the scribe. This distinction is indicated in the mark-up through the use of the reason attribute :

gieck sijdan <supplied reason="omitted">j burt</supplied>

gieck sijdan <j burt>

lid<supplied reason="illegible">z</supplied>

lid[z]

With <supplied> the attribute resp can be used to indicate the scholar or previous editor responsible for the conjectural emendation. Where the reading of another witness supports the reconstruction it is also possible to use the source attribute:

ath &thorn;eir <supplied reason="omitted" source="AM 152 fol., 76ra" resp="NN">mundu</supplied> sundr ganga

The <supplied> element should only be used when the missing text can be reconstructed with some degree of certainty. When such is not the case <gap> should be used instead, with both a reason and an extent attribute. The extent should be given as the number of characters presumed missing, which can then be made to display as a series of small noughts, as is customary in a printed edition.

<gap reason="damage" extent="7"/>