For straightforward Acts
Table of Contents: numbers follow
PREFACE, LONGTITLE, PREAMBLE, BODY used as and where appropriate
PREFACE
LONGTITLE
PREAMBLE
BODY
Commencement date/s captured
Schedules: headings / subheadings / section references marked up correctly
Headings are Sentence case
Defined terms captured
References linked correctly (and no references linked incorrectly)
Terms italicised correctly
Editor warnings all resolved
Heading keywords used appropriately (e.g. PART, not CROSSHEADING Part)
PART
CROSSHEADING Part
Formatting (// for italics and ** for bold) not overused, e.g. not used for crossheadings
//
**
Table heading style used rather than manually bolding text
Superscripts (12{{^th}}) and subscripts (CO{{_2}}) captured
12{{^th}}
CO{{_2}}
Subsection, paragraph, etc. numbers follow
Annotations indented correctly
Text at end of nested lists indented correctly
Line breaks – text that was pulled back into section heading
Line breaks – heading that ran over a line
Line breaks – body text that was incorrectly broken up
Check for these by skimming the text and searching for repeated occurrences of any errors.
(1) accidentally recorded as lowercase (L) or uppercase (i) (there should be an editor warning for this)
Words joined together, e.g. of the recorded as ofthe
of the
ofthe
Ligatures misrecognised, e.g. ri recorded as n
ri
n
Numbers picked up incorrectly (e.g. SO,OOO instead of 50,000)
Currency symbols misrecognised (e.g. N instead of ₦)
Last updated 2 years ago