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<damage>

damage

contains an area of damage to the text witness.

Module transcrPHDA

Attributes

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

figures

linking

spoken

tagdocs

verse

Note

Since damage to text witnesses frequently makes them harder to read, the damage element will often contain an unclear element. If the damaged area is not continuous (e.g. a stain affecting several strings of text), the @group attribute may be used to group together several related damage elements; alternatively the join element may be used to indicate which damage and unclear elements are part of the same physical phenomenon.

The damage, gap, del, unclear and supplied elements may be closely allied in use. See section Use of the for discussion of which element is appropriate for which circumstance.

Example

<l>The Moving Finger wri<damage agent="water" group="1">es; and</damage> having writ,</l>
<l>Moves <damage agent="water" group="1">
    <supplied>on: nor all your</supplied>
  </damage> Piety nor Wit</l>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.paraContent"/>
  </content>