[tei-council] hands=

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Matthew James Driscoll wrote:
> It doesn't have to be "many", that's just what the guidelines suggest (erroneously, as it happens); it could also be "various", which is very common in manuscript descriptions. Is there not some standard way of indicating "an indeterminate or unspecified number greater than one"
>   
if anything other than a number means "various", why not just treat the 
absence of
@hands as meaning "I dunno, quite a few, I can't tell"?

but I think you need the facility to say "at least 3, maybe more".

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