The largest gap in Gaskell's diary is a missing third of a page. I've encoded this as a "gap" for now, but there are tiny bits of remaining text in the margin - the only legible part is one "=" sign, which Gaskell uses consistently to mark words that break across the line. This and the small strokes indicating the beginning of two other words make it pretty clear that there were probably six lines here originally, but I'm not sure how I code these marks in conjunction with the gap itself.
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The largest gap in Gaskell's diary is a missing third of a page. I've encoded this as a "gap" for now, but there are tiny bits of remaining text in the margin - the only legible part is one "=" sign, which Gaskell uses consistently to mark words that break across the line. This and the small strokes indicating the beginning of two other words make it pretty clear that there were probably six lines here originally, but I'm not sure how I code these marks in conjunction with the gap itself.
According to the TEI on the "gap" element (http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-gap.html), it can contain a "desc" element. Would I encode the partial text within "desc", or do I need another element here?