Re: [Indic-texts] string holes

Dear list members, tei:space is syntactically not quite what you want there, I think. While its short description is simply that it “indicates the location of a significant space in the text”, if you look further in the Guidelines (https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/PH.html#PHSP) you’ll find that they say: “The author or scribe may have left space for a word, or for an initial capital, and for some reason the word or capital was never supplied and the space left empty. The presence of significant space in the text being transcribed may be indicated by the space element.” To me this means that “tei:space” should be used for those spaces where some text is missing. That’s not the case for the binding holes and their surrounding spaces. They are like margins in bound volumes: they were left empty because the (later?) binding would have made anything written there hard to read. That said, I’m also using tei:space with @type="binding-hole" at the moment. I like the idea of proposing a dedicated element that can be used for this kind of thing. What attributes do you currently use when you use tei:space for binding holes? I suppose indicating the type of binding could be useful, and perhaps some way of indicating the shape and dimension of the hole and the space surrounding it. Might be interesting to search by types/peculiarities of binding holes. All the best, On Tue, Oct 08 2019, Dániel Balogh wrote:

Dear All, binding-hole it is then. But I'm also curious to hear further details from Camillo. Best, Daniel

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 07:36, Arlo Griffiths wrote:

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The use of <space type="binding-hole"/> is also used in EIAD. The term binding-hole is sufficiently broad to be applicable both to inscriptions and to manuscripts. I recommend keeping it in lieu of simply <space type="hole"/> because anyone may forget at any time that there is also <space type="defect">, and so, in my view, <space type="hole"/> is too ambiguous.

Best wishes,

Arlo

Le 7 oct. 2019 à 19:44, Dániel Balogh a écrit :

Dear Peter and Andrew, the current draft of the DHARMA encoding guide says <space type="hole"> which is also the way I handled copperplate binding holes in the Siddham corpus. I prefer the simpler "hole" to the more cumbersome "binding-hole" but if you, Andrew, have already used "binding-hole" a lot and would prefer this more accurate term, please convince me to adopt it for use in DHARMA. (Fyi, I our guide prescribes <space type="defect"> for all spaces left blank due to physical defects in the surface, so "hole" is not in my opinion ambiguous.) Best, Dan

On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 19:14, Andrew Ollett wrote:

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I use <space type="binding-hole"/>. I am not sure what the current recommendation in major projects (e.g. DHARMA).

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 12:12 PM Peter Mukunda Pasedach < peter.pasedach@googlemail.com> wrote:

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Dear all,

how do you represent string holes in TEI transcripts of palm-leaf manuscripts?

Best,

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