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'."

An example that has been shared is the poem in the middle of the central column of this page, where there's a line of asterisks.  They would be tagged

<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