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
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
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.
Mark up
letter of agreement
as an insertion.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:
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