Uninterpreted characters

Clear but incomprehensible letters

• TEI definition: orig

Characters clearly read but not interpreted by the editor, conventionally written in uppercase in a Leiden transcription, should be tagged using the <orig> element. The characters need not be written in uppercase (in fact arguably it may be better if they were not), although characters such as Latin V or Greek Σ, which cannot be assigned an unambiguous lowercase form when uninterpreted, may be safer in uppercase. The example EpiDoc P5 stylesheets currently output uppercase letters in the HTML whether or not the letters are in lower or uppercase in the XML.