Working with italicised terms

In some traditions, certain terms appear in italics. For example, Latin terms such as bona fide, inter alia and pro rata. The platform can do this automatically for specific terms.

Italicised terms for a country

To see the list of italicised terms for a country:

1. Click Analysis and then Italicised terms.

2. Click In <country> (e.g. 'In South Africa')

The listed terms will be italicised if you click Mark up italics.

How to italicise terms

1. Click Analysis and then Italicised terms.

2. Click Mark up italics.

Laws.Africa will automatically search the document for the standard list of italicised terms for the current country, and italicise them.

The 'In this document' tab displays the terms that have been italicised in the current document.

How to remove italics

To remove italics from a single term, delete the surrounding //s. For example, This //text// shouldn't be italicised → This text shouldn't be italicised.

Select text in the above example and hit Ctrl+I to remove the italics. Hitting Ctrl+I again will re-italicise it.

To remove italics from all italicised terms in the document:

1. Click Analysis and then Italicised terms.

2. Click Remove italics.

Don't do this if you've painstakingly italicised instructions in forms like (insert name here), because those will be removed as well.