When the abbreviated form contains a marker that does not exist in the expanded form, such as an additional letter or punctuation, best practice is to put these inside an <am> element, which the standard stylesheets will omit when rendering the expanded form.
- TEI definition: expan ; EpiDoc-specific
customization: expan
- TEI definition: ex ; EpiDoc-specific
customization: ex
- TEI definition: am
- TEI definition: abbr
‘’Silvio Panciera ...Josh Sosin <expan>
<abbr>Aug<am>g</am>
</abbr>
<ex>usti duo</ex>
</expan>
<expan> <abbr> <am> <g type="sestertius"/> </am> </abbr> <ex>sestertios
</ex></expan>Transformation using the example EpiDoc P5 stylesheets:
- London style: (sestertios)
IRT: 788 <expan> <abbr> <am> <g type="dot"/> <g type="reverse-slanting-stroke"/> </am> </abbr> <ex cert="low">ὡς ἐτῶν
</ex></expan>Transformation using the example EpiDoc P5 stylesheets:
- DDbDP style: (ὡς ἐτῶν(?))
DDbDP: sb.14.11692#1 Responsibility for this section
Scott Vanderbilt, author
Charlotte Tupman, author