Text Encoding Initiative

Corrections and emendations

Editorial emendations can be encoded with the <sic> and <corr> (‘correction’) tags.

The choice as to which to use is made on the same grounds as with <abbr> and <expan>. In a strict diplomatic transcription, one may wish only to indicate an incorrect or suspicious reading in the manuscript without attempting to correct it, or, in a normalised text, to emend an obvious error without indicating what the original reading was.

<sic>giorit</sic>

<corr>giorir</corr>

As with <abbr> and <expan>, one may choose to use both inside a <choice> element:

<choice>
  <sic>giorit</sic>
  <corr>giorir</corr>
</choice>

The stylesheet can then determine which is to be displayed.