On Fri, September 28, 2007 10:30, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
> Could this be used for modified characters as well? For example, a
> scribe starts writing a letter then at some point (possibly after having
> finished writing it) notes that it is the wrong one and corrects the
> shape into another letter. What would you do in that case? <add> / <del>
> feel a little weird considering it's the same character being modified.
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Hello,
at Henrik Ibsen's Writings we do encode transformations from one character
to another like the ones you describe with <del rend="overwritten"> (btw,
we still use P4):

an<del rend="overwritten">t</del>d

I.e. we encode the deleted character within <del>, here 't', while we only
transcribe the new character resulting from the transformation of the
original, here 'd'.
I agree that this is probably not the most satisfying solution, but still
we find that it is the best we can do without modifying the DTD with a new
element.
All the best, Hilde

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