The four accents in A, although rather big, are nonetheless distinctly shorter than long accents e.g. in bars 39, 41-43 or 68. In GC accents are much longer what was reproduced in GE (the marks in GE are longer than accents in e.g. bars 179-180 or 184). FE has long accents as well, but EE arbitrarily replaced them with vertical accents.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, EE revisions, Inaccuracies in FE, Inaccuracies in GC
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins