Mchan 'grel Formatting
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</p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="mchangrelformatting" class="anchorpoint"></a>mchan 'grel formatting</h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Note:</strong> The difference below starts after "Instead," and goes through to the end.
</p><h3 class="heading-h3"><a name="10Mchangrel" class="anchorpoint"></a>10. Mchan ’grel</h3><p class="paragraph"><em class="italic">mchan ’grel</em> refers to the custom of someone writing small notes in a text written by someone else, and then writing a small chain of dots (<em class="italic">mchan btags</em>) to connect any given note to the point in the original text to which it applies. If the book that you are typing has <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span>, you should enter it using the following method. The result will not look like <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span> does in the printed copy of your book. However, when the computer file is used to create a <em class="italic">pecha</em>, the <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span> that you have entered can be automatically formatted to appear in the traditional way.</p><p class="paragraph">To type <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span>, you will not enter in the small dots (<span class="size3">མཆན་རྟགས་</span>) that lead from the place of insertion to the note. Instead,</p><ol><li>Insert a footnote in the place where the <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span> begins.</li>
<li>In the footnote, put the contents of the <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span>.</li>
<li>Select the contents of the <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span> and apply the "Annotation Block,anb" style. Since this is a paragraph style, you can mark individual characters within the <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span> as "unclear,uc" or with whatever character styles, if any, are appropriate.</li></ol><p class="paragraph">The result will have a footnote number in the text, and something like this in the footnote itself: <strong class="bold"><em class="italic">མཆན་འགྲེལ་ཟེར་ཡ་འདི་མཆན་བུའི་ཡི་གེ་རེད།</em></strong></p><p class="paragraph">An alternative method is to first enter in the text of the note at the appropriate location as described above. Then, highlight it and press Ctrl+F1. This will turn the highlighted text into the note style.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Note:</strong> The words ཡང་བྱུང་ in the context of a <span class="size3">མཆན་འགྲེལ་</span> are the rough Tibetan equivalent of "variant reading."
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