[tei-council] Suppressed text: summary of position (FR 2242434)

[Elena Pierazzo]

> Gabby also says this would not solve the case "for interpolated verses" 
> which is quite possibly true, but (if I understand his reason for saying 
> so) the same would apply to any phrase-level element you might invent.
>
>   
The point is that interpolated segments (and the consequent need for an 
editor to mark them as superfluous) are quite common in medieval texts. 
This is a standard practice in editorial work and I think that a 
standard practice should not be left to the invention of single editors 
(with consequent proliferation of element, as it is now, by the way), 
but TEI should provide a standard solution for it.

Interpolations are not errors of the scribes (so sic cannot be used), 
but texts that have been added by someone (a scribe, a reader of the 
text), perhaps initially as a gloss and then have been incorporated to 
the text. The editor might want, in those cases, to espunge them 
altogether, or mark them as superfluous, or say 'possibly interpolated' 
(so a @cert attribute would be required).

Elena


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