Text Encoding Initiative

The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

<addSpan>

<addSpan> (added span of text) marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text added by an author, scribe, annotator or corrector (see also <add>).
Attributes (In addition to global attributes and those inherited from editIncl)
type classifies the addition, using any convenient typology.
Datatype: CDATA
Values: Any string of characters.
Default: #IMPLIED
Example: 








place
indicates where the addition is made.




Datatype: CDATA





Suggested values include:



inline 
addition is made in a space left in the witness by
an
earlier scribe.




supralinear 
addition is made above the line.




infralinear 
addition is made below the line.




marginleft 
addition is made in left margin.




marginright 
addition is made in right margin.




margintop 
addition is made in top margin.




marginbot 
addition is made in bottom margin.




overleaf 
addition is made on the other side of the leaf.











Default: #IMPLIED






Example: 
Then they went back home.
<addSpan place="supralinear marginright overleaf" to="p23"/>
When they got there, ...






Note



Long additions may frequently spill from one location to
another; in this case, more than one value may be given, as shown in
the example above.








resp

  (responsible)
signifies the editor or transcriber responsible for identifying
the hand of the addition.




Datatype: IDREF






Values: must be one of the identifiers declared in the document
header, associated with a person asserted as responsible for some
aspect of the text's creation, transcription, editing, or encoding
(see chapter 17 Certainty and Responsibility).






Default: %INHERITED;






Example: 








cert

  (certainty)
signifies the degree of certainty ascribed to the
identification of the hand of the addition.




Datatype: CDATA






Default: #IMPLIED






Example: 








hand
signifies the hand of the agent which made the addition.




Datatype: IDREF






Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document
header (see section 18.2.1 Document Hands).






Default: %INHERITED;






Example: 








to
indicates the endpoint
of the added passage, by supplying the value of the id
attribute of an <anchor> or other empty element placed there.




Datatype: IDREF






Values: any valid identifier.






Default: #REQUIRED






Example: 






Note



Both the beginning and the end of the added material must
be marked; the beginning by the <addSpan> element itself, the
end by the to attribute.












Example








Module
Declared in file teitran2; Additional tag set for Physical Transcription: enabled by
TEI.transcr





Class
editIncl





Data Description
Empty.




May occur within
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Declaration

<!ELEMENT addSpan %om.RO;  EMPTY> 
<!ATTLIST addSpan  
      %a.global;
      type CDATA #IMPLIED
      place CDATA #IMPLIED
      resp IDREF %INHERITED;
      cert CDATA #IMPLIED
      hand IDREF %INHERITED;
      to IDREF #REQUIRED>






See further
18.1.4 Additions and Deletions








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