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Decreasing Plausibility among Lectiones

Pair of lectiones arranged by the editor in descending order of plausibility (from left to right). The critical discrepancy between the variants varies and may optionally be classified, using a specific notation, as minor or major.

Overview

NotationConceptual ASTPaper Output
%⊙>‽ᵟ…%`PlausibilityAssessment(
PlausibilitySeq{
lectiones: [ ⊙, … ],
links: [
PlausibilityLink(
kind: Preferred,
degree: Some(γ)
), …
]
}
)`⦃ ⊙ 𝘱 … ⦄
  • ‽ᵟ ∈ {?, !, ε} = uncertainty marker ?, certainty marker !, or empty string (ε).
  • 𝘱 ∈ {≿, ≻, ⋟} = rendering of the plausibility operator (preference) based on the presence/absence of the ? or ! modifier.
  • γ ∈ {Low, High, Medium} = assertive strenght corresponding to the marker used in the notation.
  • ⊙ ∈ PLAUSIBILITY_ALLOWED = any phenomena allowed within PlausibilityAssessment (notation, AST or rendering depending on its placement).

Syntax

  • In the body of the text: any notation valid for expressing IbiScript phenomena separated by the > plausibility operator (optionally qualified), all enclosed within percent signs %…%.
  • In the phenomenon annotations/metadata: any Unicode character sequence representing plain text (philological sigla and conventions, linguistic remarks, etc.) separated by the > plausibility operator (optionally qualified), all enclosed within percent signs %…%.

See Interpretative Plausibility Assessment for the automatic rectification performed by the formatter to improve legibility.

Examples

NotationPaper Output
 
%a>b>c%
abc
%a>?b>?c%
abc
%a>!b>!c%
abc
+textus;h=%a>b%+
abtextus

EpiDoc Outputs

NotationEpiDoc (XML)
 
%a>b>c%
 
<ab>
    <app type="alternative">
        <lem>a</lem>
        <rdg>b</rdg>
        <rdg>c</rdg>
        <note>Detailed plausibility chain available in IbiScript source
        </note>
    </app>
</ab>
%a>?b>?c%
 
<ab>
    <app type="alternative">
        <lem cert="low">a</lem>
        <rdg cert="low">b</rdg>
        <rdg cert="low">c</rdg>
        <note>Detailed plausibility chain available in IbiScript source
        </note>
    </app>
</ab>
%a>!b>!c%
 
<ab>
    <app type="alternative">
        <lem>a</lem>
        <rdg>b</rdg>
        <rdg>c</rdg>
        <note>Detailed plausibility chain available in IbiScript source
        </note>
    </app>
</ab>
+textus;h=%a>b%+
 
<ab>
    <add cert="medium">textus<app type="alternative"><lem><handShift new="#a"/>textus</lem><rdg><handShift new="#b"/>textus</rdg></app></add>
</ab>

Structural Analysis (Conceptual AST)

NotationAST
 
%a>b>c%
 
PlausibilityAssessment
  lectio:
    Plain("a")
  link: Preferred[medium]
  lectio:
    Plain("b")
  link: Preferred[medium]
  lectio:
    Plain("c")

%a>?b>?c%
 
PlausibilityAssessment
  lectio:
    Plain("a")
  link: Preferred[low]
  lectio:
    Plain("b")
  link: Preferred[low]
  lectio:
    Plain("c")

%a>!b>!c%
 
PlausibilityAssessment
  lectio:
    Plain("a")
  link: Preferred[high]
  lectio:
    Plain("b")
  link: Preferred[high]
  lectio:
    Plain("c")

+textus;h=%a>b%+
 
Addition[medium][meta]
  Plain("textus")
Lines 1–3 of the example tables show the plausibility hierarchy applied to _lectiones_ in the main text (e.g. epigraphic phenomena); line 4 shows the use case in annotations, i.e. among the optional metadata supported by certain phenomena.