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overlapping abbreviations #7

Closed HelenaSabel closed 8 years ago

HelenaSabel commented 8 years ago

In your collations, have ever you run into abbreviations that take part of two tokens?

Given the following transcription:

A: sempre est B: semprest

Witness A presents a synalepha. Witness B presents a crasis. There is no linguistic variation: it’s merely a graphic one because the number of syllables is the same. Since I divide the tokens, my edition would say:

A (synalepha): sempre B: sempr’ AB: est

The problem arises when B presents an abbreviation (adding a new graphic variant to annotate and an overlapping issue):

A: sempre est B: semp<ex>re</ex>st

The way I see it, I only have two options: a) Due to the abbreviation, I open an <app> tagset considering that both tokens belong to the same segmentation:

A (synalepha): sempre est B (abbreviation): semp<ex>r’ e</ex>st

B) I create two <ex> elements indicating somehow that they belong to the same abbreviation.

A (synalepha): sempre B (abbreviation): semp<ex xml:id="re1" next="#re2">r</ex>’ A: est B (abbreviation): <ex xml:id="re2" prev="#re1">e</ex>st

What do you think?

P.S.: There could be a third option:

A (synalepha): sempre B (abbreviation): semp<ex>re</ex> A: est B (crase): ’st

It is a estrange convention though...

djbpitt commented 8 years ago

semp<ex>r<supplied reason="synalepha">e</supplied> e</ex>st