The process of selectio resembles eclectic textual criticism, but applied to a restricted set of hypothetical hyparchetypes. The steps of examinatio and emendatio resemble copy-text editing. In fact, the other techniques can be seen as special cases of stemmatics in which a rigorous family history of the text cannot be determined but only approximated. If it seems that one manuscript is by far the best text, then <answer>copy text editing</answer> is appropriate, and if it seems that a group of manuscripts are good, then eclecticism on that group would be proper.
What process is best used when only one manuscript is viable?
copy text editing