Minor Update In ‘The List’ Conventions
I try very hard not to make changes to the basic organization of ‘The List’ but every once in a while, it is unfortunately necessary. In the past, I have used “Variant (V)” to indicate a macroedition type where the text had been edited significantly. Now, for consistency, I find myself needing to distinguish between texts with edits that are “linguistically interesting” and edits that are not.
Ordinarily, I would try to add and not change the existing categories, but I just don’t think it’s tenable in this case. Consequently, I have introduced a new macroedition category, “Revision (R)” and all existing “Variants” have been converted to “Revisions”. Going forward a “Revision” is linguistically interesting and “Variants” are not.
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[…] I definitely have not been able to acquire every text I would have liked to, let alone every print of every edition. So I’m assuming that the sampling I have is representative enough to identify the high-level patterns—enough to identify what we generally care about: ‘linguistically interesting macroeditions’. In my classification system, that means any macroedition but ‘variations’. […]