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 <arlo.griffiths@efeo.net> wrote:
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 <danbalogh@gmail.com> 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 <andrew.ollett@gmail.com>
wrote:
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:
Dear all,
how do you represent string holes in TEI transcripts of palm-leaf
manuscripts?
Best,
Peter
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