getting s.v. without the headword

[arlogriffiths]

In order to get the above display I had to hack the system as follows: <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966_01"/><citedRange unit="mixed">s.v.</citedRange></bibl>. If I want not to have two full-stops apparently the hack should be <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966_01"/><citedRange unit="mixed">s.v</citedRange></bibl>.

Can it be made possible to allow an empty element <citedRange unit="entry"/> when the entry is already clear in the context, so that <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966_01"/><citedRange unit="entry"/></bibl> would give the desired display? At the moment, the display of <citedRange unit="entry"/> is nothing at all.

[danbalogh]

To be honest, I've used <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966_01"/></bibl> s.v. any number of times. I think it's plenty enough to encode the reference and prefer not to worry about its details.
That said, if <citedRange unit="entry"/> can be made to work easily, I'm not against it and even willing to check my files and change the above to that :)

[arlogriffiths]

what a delightfully easy work around !

@michaelnmmeyer : do you like <citedRange unit="entry"/> or shall we do without it?

[michaelnmmeyer]

I would rather do without <citedRange unit="entry"/>.

[arlogriffiths]

alright.

Dan: you you want to mention the pattern "<bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966_01"/></bibl>, s.v." (with the comma) in EGD? I myself had not thought of this elegantly simple solution, so others risk wasting time like I did on try to get a simple result with complicated means. Whatever you decide, please then close this thread.

[danbalogh]

Sorry, on second thoughts, I have questions.
I don't understand why your <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966_01"/><citedRange unit="mixed">s.v.</citedRange></bibl> gets displayed as "Sircar 1966, s.v..", i.e. why the second full stop appears. I assume that in a "typical" case of a mixed reference, we would want no automatic full stop, e.g. <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966_01"/><citedRange unit="mixed">p. 291 nn. 9, 10</citedRange></bibl> should be displayed as "Sircar 1966, p. 291 nn. 9, 10".
@michaelnmmeyer , @arlogriffiths do either of you have an answer to why that full stop is displayed?

If there is no reason and it's a bug, then it should be eliminated, in which case we have two ways of going forward with the freedom to choose:

1. recommend <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966_01"/><citedRange unit="mixed">s.v.</citedRange></bibl> for displaying s.v. without citing a headword; or
2. just forget about <citedRange unit="mixed"> altogether and recommend my "delightfully easy" and "elegantly simple" solution (thank you!) for anything that cannot be achieved with the rigorous use of <citedRange>.

[arlogriffiths]

this is for @michaelnmmeyer ...