[tei-council] Found in the Core chapter

[James Cummings]

Lou Burnard wrote:
> "<p>Practice diverges on whether the <gi>expan</gi> element should be
> used, as here, to represent simply the material omitted in the
> abbreviated representation, or whether it should always represent the
> whole string abbreviated as in the modern examples cited above.</p>"
> 
> I think we have now agreed that using <expan> for "simply the material 
> omitted" is now heretical,
> and propose to reword this passage accordingly, OK?

I don't understand why you are asking?  Sounds self-evident to me.  You've 
introduced <ex> (hurrah), so any mentions of using <expan> to do the same thing 
should be eradicated.

-James

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Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford
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