Handle case of missing letter(s) in a single syllable

[dchiller]

The (potentially only) case of this is chant 254921...there is a two-syllable word "m(?)os" where there is a single missing letter. The usual practice of encoding missing words or syllables (with a "#") is an edge case here, because this assumes that there is volpiano that should be aligned with (and only with) those missing letters/syllables/words. In this case, however, the volpiano syllable should be aligned with the "m" AND the missing letter.

[dchiller]

@annamorphism This seems like it may be a unique case? Do you think it is ok to expect that the encoding "convention" will be what you've fixed it to be here?

Sorry... this one turns out not to be as simple as I thought when I put this chant in the comment of #26

[annamorphism]

Hmm. It's certainly an edge case--the protocols all seem to assume that missing text will imply missing syllables, but if only a few letters are missing that may not be the case. I'm going to see if I can find other examples just to see if there is some other solution that is already being used.

[annamorphism]

update: I have consulted The Debra on this question. For this particular case we could cheat and just supply the missing letter (it's not that hard to read...) if we need to resolve this case right now, but we probably want a more general solution for future use. (Folds in manuscripts happen enough of the time I am a little surprised this is the only case that's been picked up, which suggests to me that in other cases people simply ignored the missing letters...)

[dchiller]

Folds in manuscripts happen enough of the time I am a little surprised this is the only case that's been picked up, which suggests to me that in other cases people simply ignored the missing letters...

I suspect this is correct. If I look at the following folio 102v, at this chant https://cantusdatabase.org/chant/254928 there first "v" of the evovae is about as obscured by the same crease as the relevant letter is in our chant...but of course we know what that letter is, so it has been encoded as expected. I would imagine for partially-obscured syllables this is much more the case.