Uncoupled OR, How I Lost My Author(s)

Figure 3: The "flowchart" for establishing preferred authorial usage in accidentals, beginning with the copytext reading in the base manuscript A, navigating through "HOCCLEX"—the computer-generated patterns of inferred usage in the editorially constructed database of "constructed" authorial preferences. The flowchart appeared previously in my essay "Challenges of Theory and Practice in the Editing of Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes" (Greetham 1987).