Textual alterations

todo: Add examples for all forms. Especially difficult ones

Textual alterations

 * Addition,
 * deletion,
 * transposition,
 * clarification,
 * substition (should allow for cases like stylisitic rewriting and total rewriting, looser way),
 * restoration,
 * overwriting,
 * immediate/instant correction,
 * functional mark (marked as used, printer marks, later scribe marks),
 * gap for a planned insertion (which has been filled or not)

Here are Hilde Bøe's slides with examples from Henrik Ibsen's manuscripts: http://www.emunch.no/tei-mm-2008/index_ms.html

These categories appear to refer to the graphical form of the text. A distinction should be drawn, however, between fundamental editorial operations that change the flow of the text (insertion, deletion, substitution, transposition only) and their appearance in manuscripts. For example:


 * Clarification is a purely graphical rewriting of the same text. It can be regarded as a substitution of the same text in a new graphical form
 * Transposition cannot be represented adequately via markup. Since blocks of text can also be transposed, or single words, across the boundaries of tags, how can this be done without breaking the schema of the XML document? In theory anything, even markup itself can be transposed e.g. movement of a line-break: word into word. A mechanism for representing transposition is needed, in addition to some way of recording its visual appearance. See D. Smith Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI, Computers and the Humanities, 33.1-2 (1999) 103-112, who says a few things about transposition.
 * Deletion in markup seems simple but is also problematic: how does one represent the deletion of a paragraph boundary? &lt;del&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/del&gt;??? or deletion of underlining on its own without also enclosing the underlined word in a &lt;del&gt; element??
 * immediate/instant correction is really a partial version which disturbs the flow: 'I mean &lt;del&gt;the...&lt;/del&gt; a reason is ...' There is really one version original here that has no continuation in the sentence.