Laws.Africa Editor Guide
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  • Welcome
  • Getting started
    • Lesson plan
    • Signing up
    • Digitising legislation
    • What is Akoma Ntoso
    • Terminology guide
  • Managing Works
    • Creating and editing works
      • Working with commencements
    • Deleting a document
    • Amending works
      • Creating the amending work
      • Linking the amendment
      • Creating a new document at the new point in time
      • Applying the amendments
      • Annotating the amendments
      • Example
      • Exercise
      • Consolidating the annotations
        • Simple example
        • Complicated example
    • Bulk imports (spreadsheet)
  • How-tos
    • Tasks
    • Importing a document
      • The importer
    • Cleaning up an import
    • Going back to a previous version of a document
    • Fixing all-caps headings
    • Working with tables
      • Table errors
    • Working with links
    • Working with italicised terms
    • Inserting an image
    • Inserting special characters
    • Resolving editor warnings
    • Making comments
    • Inserting editorial notes
    • Changing a document's date
    • Changing a document's short title or language
    • Search and rescue
    • How to handle different language documents
    • How to mark up defined terms which do not occur in a Definitions section
    • Very complicated amendments
      • Research
      • Undo some amendments?
      • Update the timeline
      • Create the tasks
      • Apply the amendments
  • Markup guide
    • Introduction
    • Marking up the structure
    • Preface, Long title, and Preamble
    • Headings
    • Marking up Schedules / Annexes
    • Marking up annotations
    • Marking up tables
    • Marking up links
    • Marking up images
    • Marking up footnotes
    • Marking up formatting
    • Marking up insertions and deletions
    • Keyword reference
  • Reviewing a document
    • Reviewing a document
    • Reviewer checklist
    • Signing off a work
  • Style Guides
    • Laws.Africa
    • Côte d'Ivoire
    • Ghana
    • Namibia
      • Regulations
    • Lesotho
    • Malawi
    • Nigeria
    • Zambia
    • South African Acts
    • South African By-laws
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • UNEP
    • Zimbabwe
    • Seychelles
    • Mauritius
    • Pan-African Parliament/ AGP
    • Turks and Caicos
    • Papua New Guinea
    • eSwatini
    • Rwanda
    • Documents in languages other than English
  • Administration
    • Site settings
    • Managing administrators
    • Countries and localities
    • Document subtypes
    • Task labels
    • Taxonomies
    • Notion templates
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  • How to manually insert a link
  • How to manually remove a link
  • Example
  • How to insert an email address link
  • Examples
  1. How-tos

Working with links

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Last updated 3 years ago

How to manually insert a link

See .

How to manually remove a link

The aim is to delete the link markup as well as the link itself, while keeping the linked text.

  1. Enter Edit mode.

  2. Delete the opening {{> and the closing }} around the linked text (the markup).

  3. Delete the link itself.

Don't delete the text immediately after the link.

Example

Please visit {{>https://laws.africa our website}} for more information.

To unlink the text 'our website', delete {{>https://laws.africa and }}, leaving you with:

Please visit our website for more information.

Make sure to get the space immediately after the link, as it's part of the markup.

How to insert an email address link

  1. Enter Edit mode.

  2. Insert {{>mailto:info@laws.africa before the text you want to link.

  3. Insert }} after the text you want to link.

Examples

Text differs from link

Looks like this in Edit mode:

Please write us at {{>mailto:info@laws.africa this address}} for more information.

Text and link are the same

Looks like this in Edit mode:

Please write us at {{>mailto:info@laws.africa info@laws.africa}} for more information.

Please write us at for more information.

Please write us at for more information.

Marking up links
this address
info@laws.africa