In STEMMA outputs, multi-digit state codes (e.g., 00, 01, 12, 10, 11, 12, etc.) are reserved for cases when subvariants are horizontally encoded in the same variation unit. For this reason, variant readings converted from a TEI XML collation (which are assumed to be vertically encoded) that have indices greater than 9 should be represented with letters, starting from a. I believe the maximum number of states allowed by STEMMA is 24, so the set of allowable states should be 0-9 and a-n. Thus, instead of
In STEMMA outputs, multi-digit state codes (e.g., 00, 01, 12, 10, 11, 12, etc.) are reserved for cases when subvariants are horizontally encoded in the same variation unit. For this reason, variant readings converted from a TEI XML collation (which are assumed to be vertically encoded) that have indices greater than 9 should be represented with letters, starting from a. I believe the maximum number of states allowed by STEMMA is 24, so the set of allowable states should be 0-9 and a-n. Thus, instead of
we should have