Erasure of As-Written Signs

Signs or spaces deliberately erased in antiquity, still legible.

Syntax

Any number of Unicode characters (followed by the optional certainty notation)

Overview

• 𝑆 = any sign (Unicode character) ∉ STOP_SET (cf. Technical Catalogue of Symbols) otherwise preceded by the escape character \.
• 𝑁 = number of characters (represented by char or digits).
• 𝑛 ∈ ℕ (natural numbers).
• ‽ᵟ ∈ {?, !, ε} = uncertainty marker ?, certainty marker !, or empty string (ε).
• γ ∈ {Low, High, Medium} = certainty level corresponding to the marker used in the notation.
• ◇ᵟ ∈ {⯑, ⯁, ε} = rendering of the uncertainty/certainty marker in the notation or empty string (ε).

See Signs Erased in Antiquity and Rasurae for the automatic rectification performed by the formatter to improve legibility.

Examples

[[abc]]

[[abc?]]

[[abc!]]

EpiDoc Outputs

[[abc]]

<ab>
    <del cert="medium">
        <supplied reason="lost">abc</supplied>
    </del>
</ab>

[[abc?]]

<ab>
    <del cert="low">
        <supplied reason="lost">abc</supplied>
    </del>
</ab>

[[abc!]]

<ab>
    <del cert="high">
        <supplied reason="lost">abc</supplied>
    </del>
</ab>

Structural Analysis (Conceptual AST)

[[abc]]

Erasure[medium]
  Plain("abc")

[[abc?]]

Erasure[low]
  Plain("abc")

[[abc!]]

Erasure[high]
  Plain("abc")