Re: use cases for <space>

Dear Martin, maybe that older discussion is helpful for you:
https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=tei-l;832300b1.1502

Esp. the second example
> [...] use [<metamark> and] @function="placeholder" here, as the space 
> indeed is the mark or sign indicating the insecurity and it was left 
> as a kind of place holder to be filled in later:
>
> Baco von Verulam in seinem Werke:<metamark 
> function="placeholder"><space dim="horizontal" unit="words" 
> quantity="1"/></metamark>.

Best wishes
Christian




Am 13.02.2017 um 16:10 schrieb Martin Mueller:
>
> The sources of TCP texts include forms that deliberately leave a space 
> to be filled in by somebody,  as in A83003 (Wing E1791), where the 
> phrase “Aſſeſſors and Collectors of” is followed by a space to let 
> somebody write down what they were assessing or collecting.  In this 
> particular TCP transcription the space is represented by a <gap> 
> element. That doesn’t seem right.  There is no lacuna there; it is, in 
> Wallace Stevens’ lovely phrase a “nothing that is.”
>
> Would <space> be the appropriate element for representing this?  It’s 
> from the transcription module, which deals with the physical aspects 
> of documentary edition, which is not what the TCP texts are about. And 
> the description of the <space> element in the Guidelines does not 
> include this, although I’d think of this as a very obvious use case 
> that it might good to have mentioned there, if <space> is thought of 
> as the right solution for this sort of thing.
>
> And what about a name like “B     “, not uncommon in satirical texts?
>