Re: Multiple readings of unclear passage

Yes, that's a good point. I guess I'm thinking of readings in the sense 
of a single manuscript with different possible interpretations (I don't 
often have variant sources in my apparatus, just variant editorial 
interpretations of those sources; rdg[ <at> resp] rather than rdg[ <at> wit]...)

I suppose, though, that if choice can be used to speculate about 
expansion of doubtful abbreviations or correction of corrupt text, then 
resolutions of unclear text could also work.

G

On 02/06/2010 12:31, Franz Fischer wrote:
> I don't think what Peter has in mind is a variant reading in the sense
> of a rdg-element, i.e. a given textual variation (in different
> manuscript copies for example). There is only one single reading, but
> this reading is unclear (under the same editorial view).
> I'd thus be fine with Peter's suggestion. Of course one would wish to
> have the editor's guess what is more probable ...
>
> Franz
>
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>> L <at> listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Gabriel Bodard
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>> Subject: Re: Multiple readings of unclear passage
>>
>> Whether the schema allows it or not is another question, but
> personally
>> this makes me a little uncomfortable. My feeling is that<choice>  is
> for
>> rendering two (or more) different editorial views of a single (reading
>> of) a piece of text. To represent two alternate readings of an
> uncertain
>> text we should use something like<app>  and<rdg>, no?
>>
>> <app>
>>     <rdg><unclear>this</unclear></rdg>
>>     <rdg><unclear>this</unclear></rdg>
>> </app>
>>
>> (Assuming that all 4 letters of "th[is|at]" really are unclear, and
> not
>> only the last two...)
>>
>> G
>>
>> On 02/06/2010 11:27, Peter Boot wrote:
>>> I don't think that anything in the Guidelines argues against it, but
> still
>>> I would like to hear your opinion about using a<choice>   with
> multiple
>>> <unclear>   children to record two possible readings of a word that's
> hard to
>>> read, as in:
>>>
>>> I can't read
>>>      <choice>
>>>         <unclear>this</unclear>
>>>         <unclear>that</unclear>
>>>      </choice>.
>>>
>>> Is this correct?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>
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