Put point inside or at the end of a word (which is where it would end up if you searched for the word), but not at the begining of the word (i.e., the cursor should not be on the first character of a word, but can be on any subsequent character or on the immediately following character, usually a blank or "<"). Then press the appropriate F-key to tag a single word:
persNameplaceNamenameemphmcrhiMnemonic: "person, place, thing" for the first three; the second three occur in descending order of literary importance, or at least of linguistic stress.
Note that the tags will not be in the correct case: they'll either be all upper- or all lower-case. Don't worry about it, the file will be valid either way, and we have a program (caseFix) which will fix the case of all tags in a file.
Point is left immediately following the word, and immediately before the end-tag. In many situations entering C-c C-d (the sgml-next- data-field command) will pop point to where you want to be (in particular, this is a good way to encode single-word phrase-level elements when you are transcribing a text: after typing the word press the appropriate F-key, and then C-c C-d, then continue typing).
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