Marking up insertions and deletions

Showing the changes that have been made when one principal work amends another.

After working through this section, you should be able to:

• Mark up insertions

• Mark up deletions.

Marking up insertions

The pattern for marking up insertions is as follows:

• Before the inserted text, the opening {{+ (note the space after the +)

• The inserted text

• The closing }}.

If the inserted text starts with a space, simply add a second space after the +.

Example

  All decisions taken should be reported to the Bureau, the {{+ Open-ended}} Working Group and to the next meeting of the Conference of the Parties.

Will look like this in View mode:

While {{+ insertions}} and __underlines__ look the same in View mode, they just happen to both be styled with an underline for now.

If the style for insertions is updated to a double underline to set them apart from normal underlines, only {{+ insertions}} will be updated.

Marking up deletions

The pattern for marking up deletions is as follows:

• Before the deleted text, the opening {{- (note the space after the -)

• The inserted text

• The closing }}.

If the deleted text starts with a space, simply add a second space after the -.

Example

  The Secretariat shall {{- consult with}}

Will look like this in View mode:

Extra markup

In some jurisdictions, extra markup is included in the original: for example in South Africa, deletions are given [in bold and with braces]. In cases like these:

• Ignore the bold — we could always update the style for deletions to be bold rather than strikethrough.

• Leave in the braces, and include them outside the struckthrough text: [{{- remove this}}].

Exercise

Copy the text below and paste it into a practise document, then see the instructions that follow.

A letter of agreement Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the secretariat of the Basel Convention and the UNEP/OCHA Environmental Unit, identifying the areas and the methodology for cooperation.

1. Mark up letter of agreement as an insertion.

2. Mark up Memorandum of Understanding as a deletion.

When you're done, it should look like this in View mode:

and like this in Edit mode:

A {{+ letter of agreement}} {{- Memorandum of Understanding}} has been signed between the secretariat of the Basel Convention and the UNEP/OCHA Environmental Unit, identifying the areas and the methodology for cooperation.