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
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  • Date and signatories
  • Elements
  1. Style Guides

Rwanda

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Last updated 1 year ago

Documents for import

Word documents:

PDF documents:

Cleaning up the import

PDF documents

All PDF documents have 3 languages, Kinyarwanda, English and French. The French and Kinyarwanda text has been removed from the converted word documents, leaving only the English.

Heading and tables of contents

Please do not import the text that appears at the top of the first page of each document. The table of contents should also not be imported.

Preface and Preamble

The text highlighted in the image below should be marked under the PREFACE.

The text highlighted in the image below should be marked under the PREAMBLE.

PREFACE and PREAMBLE markup example

PREFACE
    **We, KAGAME Paul,**
    President of the Republic;
    
    **THE PARLIAMENT HAS ADOPTED AND WE SANCTION, PROMULGATE THE FOLLOWING LAW AND ORDER IT BE
    PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA**
    
PREAMBLE
    **THE PARLIAMENT:**

    The Chamber of Deputies, in its session of 2 May 2018;

    Pursuant to the Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda of 2003 revised in 2015, especially Articles 64, 69, 70, 88, 91, 106, 120 and 176;

    Having reviewed Law n° 19/2008 of 14/07/2008 on characteristics and ceremonies of the National Anthem as amended to date;

    **ADOPTS:**

Date and signatories

The date and signatories at the bottom of each document should be excluded from the import.

Elements

Below are some keywords you will encounter in marking up elements, indented correctly.

CHAPTER
    SECTION
        ARTICLE
            ITEMS
                ITEM 1º
                TTEM 2º
                ITEM 3º

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BMk_kPxg7eEt3HGL-tICcWuwSHPiLGVy?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1O9iigIOJteEp_XZ2EoVicpUjG0nU0bcP?usp=sharing
Highlighted text should be marked up under the PREFACE.
Highlighted text should be marked up under the PREAMBLE.