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<h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="THLToolboxhomegtTibetanTextsgtInputtingaTibetanTextgtChangestotheTibetaninputmanualinEnglishgtvariantreadingformatting" class="anchorpoint"></a><a href="/tools/wiki/home.html">THL Toolbox</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Tibetan%20Texts.html">Tibetan Texts</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Inputting%20a%20Tibetan%20Text.html">Inputting a Tibetan Text</a> > <a href="/tools/wiki/Changes%20to%20the%20Tibetan%20input%20manual%20in%20English.html">Changes to the Tibetan input manual in English</a> > variant reading formatting</h3><p class="paragraph"> </p><h3 class="heading-h1"><a name="variantreadingformatting" class="anchorpoint"></a>variant reading formatting</h3><p class="paragraph"><strong class="bold">Note:</strong> The difference below is that there is one method for noting both single-syllable and multiple-syllable variant readings. You'll see that those discreet sections no longer exist. </p><h3 class="heading-h3"><a name="VariantReadings" class="anchorpoint"></a>Variant Readings</h3><p class="paragraph">Add curly braces { } around the syllable(s) <strong class="bold">in the base edition of the text</strong> and insert the footnote after the close curly brace. Example: the base edition reads <span class="size3">བསྙན་དེ་</span> (bsnyan de) and the PRC reads <span class="size3">བརྙན་འདི་</span> (brnyan di) on page 45, line 2. The body of the text looks like this: </p><ul class="star"><li>{<span class="size3">བསྙན་དེ་</span>}<sup class="superscript">1</sup></li> <li>{bsnyan de }<sup class="superscript">1</sup></li></ul><p class="paragraph">and the footnote looks like this:</p><ul class="star"><li>PL (152.4): <span class="size3">བརྙན་འདི་</span></li> <li>PL (152.4): brnyan ’di</li></ul><p class="paragraph"> </p><h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="ProvidedforunrestrictedusebythespanclassnobrimgsrcsakairwikitoolimagesicklearrowgifaltexternallinktitleexternallinkahrefhttpwwwthdlorgtargetrwikiexternalTibetanandHimalayanLibraryaspan" class="anchorpoint"></a><em class="italic">Provided for unrestricted use by the <span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="http://www.thdl.org" target="rwikiexternal">Tibetan and Himalayan Library</a></span></em></h3>