Dear colleagues,
There's a
TEI discussion about a new element <ellipsis> to be added to the next edition of the TEI guidelines. The idea is that this tag would mark,
"the purposeful indication in the source document that a passage has been omitted."
or
"when the source explicitly indicates `there is stuff missing here'."
<ellipsis>* * * *</ellipsis>
We're looking for more examples. If you can quickly (before mid-August) lay your hand on a good, clear example from a Sanskrit text, I would be grateful to know about it.
For example, MSS in which the scribe writes a little series of mātrā lines showing that he can't read those akṣaras in his exemplar at that point. I think that would count as ellipsis in the sense given above
Best,
Dominik
