How it was made
What each linked phrase in the line under the book's title means: each section says what its file is for, then opens it.
English word order
The shelf's list of source word orders that must never show through in the English, as "taken from us everyone" for "taken everyone from us". The check refuses each shape on every page of every book, and a shape found later is added and swept over every page already written.
Contractions
The shelf's list of every long form English shortens when it's said aloud, and when: "who is" to "who's", "do not" to "don't", or "never" with the reason. The check refuses a listed form left long in the text, the headings and the notes.
Checked against the scan
The source text this translation was made from, established page by page against scans of the printed edition: misread letters restored, damaged words settled and the printed corrections applied, each with a note. Where the machine-read text and the page disagree, the scan wins.
Translated by manifest
The manifest's phrases: every recurring phrase of the source with the one English chosen for it, any other English allowed and when, the page it was first decided on, and why. Phrases are translated first, longest first, so the same words read the same way everywhere.
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Every choice logged
The manifest's words: every recurring source word with its English, the other English each moment allows, the page it was first decided on, the reason, the dictionary it rests on, and every page logged as an exception.
Open merlin-manifest-words.tsv
Changes carried everywhere
The change log: every change made to a page after it was translated, with its time, its kind, its pages, the English before and after, and why. A changed choice is made in the manifest first and carried to every page it reaches, and the check refuses a page that changed with no change logged.
Matching outlines
The source text carries the same headings as the translation, in English, at the same places, so the two outlines match one for one and a heading in either opens the same passage.
Pages linked to scans
Every page marker in the translation links to the same page of the source text, and each page there opens that page of the scan, kept two ways: a link to where it was found online, and a copy saved beside the book in case that site goes down. Any paragraph can be checked against the page it came from.
Endnotes
The endnotes at the end of the book: what a reader would ask about a custom, a reference or a word, where Malory keeps or changes a passage, and where the source text is uncertain.
Additions marked
A note or glossary entry this translation adds, rather than one the printed edition gives, ends on an asterisk that links to the line saying so, so a reader always knows whose explanation it is.
Sourced glossary
The glossary of the people, places and words the book uses: each entry comes from the printed edition's own index or word list, or is marked as added, with the page it was found on, and its terms are underlined in the text.
Modern names
Each person and place goes by the name a modern English reader knows, the one a standard reference such as Wikipedia files them under, in the story and the glossary alike, with the source's own spellings listed under the glossary heading.
Places located from sources
Each place in the glossary says whether it's real, legendary or uncertain, and where it is, from a geographic source, or why no identification is secure.