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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  • Structural markup
  • Schedule-like blocks
  • Inline markup
  • Table markup
  1. Markup guide

Keyword reference

Structural markup

Keyword

Description

PREFACE

Introduces the Preface

PREAMBLE

Introduces the Preamble

BODY

Introduces the main body (can be left out if there's no Preface or Preamble)

CHAP 1 - Heading

Introduces a Chapter

PART A - Heading

Introduces a Part

SUBPART X - Heading

Introduces a Subpart

DIVISION X - Heading

Introduces a Division

SUBDIVISION

Introduces a Subdivision

SEC 1. - Heading

Introduces a section

SUBSEC (1) - Heading

Introduces a subsection

PARA (a) - Heading

Introduces a paragraph

SUBPARA (i) - Heading

Introduces a subparagraph

ART 1 - Heading

Introduces an article

SCHEDULE

Introduces a Schedule (see the full list of Schedule-like blocks below)

QUOTE{startQuote “}

Introduces a quote

FOOTNOTE

Introduces a footnote

Schedule-like blocks

ANNEXURE APPENDIX ATTACHMENT SCHEDULE

Inline markup

\

Escape a special keyword

LONGTITLE

Introduces the Long title

CROSSHEADING

Introduces a Crossheading

{{*[annotation]}}

An annotation

{{^superscript}}

Superscripted text

{{_subscript}}

Subscripted text

**bold**

Bold text

//italics//

Italics text

__underline__

Underlined text

{{>https://example.com Linked text}}

A link

{{IMG media/logo.png}}

An image

{{FOOTNOTE x}}

A footnote reference, with x as the reference marker

{{^{{FOOTNOTE x}}}}

A superscripted footnote reference

{{+ ins}}

Inserted text

{{- del}}

Deleted text

Table markup

Keyword

Description

TABLE

Introduces a table

TR

Introduces a table row

TH

Introduces a table heading cell

TC

Introduces a table content cell

{colspan 5}

After TH or TC, gives 5 as the total number of columns this cell will occupy

{rowspan 5}

After TH or TC, gives 5 as the total number of rows this cell will occupy

{colspan 2|rowspan 3}

After TH or TC, gives 2 as the total number of columns and 3 as the total number of rows this cell will occupy

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