[tei-council] <patch> element -- WTF?

[Lou Burnard]

On 10/09/14 01:02, Syd Bauman wrote:
> Blimy. How do you encode a patch without <patch>?
>
> It was part of the "genetic encoding" recommendation that was wrapped
> into transcription of primary sources years ago. Why didn't <patch>
> make it in? I note that it is not a member of any model classes.

They decided to leave it out because it is redundant. A patch is just a 
<surface> which happens to be attached to another one.