Variant readings are usually spelled out in full in the apparatus. … Three periods (…) represent the text of the edition where the variant form cited is in agreement with it (cf. Lk 22,55 ⸂). 2 3 1 4 5 Variants of word order comprising at least four words can be represented by italic numerals which correspond to the order of the words in the text (1 = the first word in the text, etc.). This convention is followed not just for variants of transposition