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
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:
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.
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.
