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
  • Style Guides
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    • Tanzania
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    • Zimbabwe
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    • Mauritius
    • Pan-African Parliament/ AGP
    • Turks and Caicos
    • Papua New Guinea
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    • Rwanda
    • Documents in languages other than English
  • Administration
    • Site settings
    • Managing administrators
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    • Document subtypes
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    • Taxonomies
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  • Importing the Word documents
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  • Example
  • Other changes
  • Words incorrectly hyphenated
  • References in Acts
  • Section numbers written out as words
  1. Style Guides

Zimbabwe

Special instructions for cleaning up Zimbabwe imports

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Importing the Word documents

NB: Use the Word docs to import, but use the pdfs as reference when cleaning up the imports.

Word docs saved here:

Pdfs saved here:

Annotations

For the existing annotations in the consolidated Acts:

Change "s." or "Section" to "section", "Subsection" to "subsection", "Paragraph" to "paragraph", "Definition" to "definition", "Proviso" to "proviso", "Long Title" to "long title", "Heading" to "heading" and "Item" to "item". The only ones that must remain capitalised are "Chapter", "Part" and "Schedule".

Remove the full stop at the end of the annotation (if there is one)

Please do not make any additional changes to the existing annotations, including the annotations in definitions sections.

Example

[Section amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001.] or [ s. amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001.] becomes [section amended by section 4 of Act ]

Other changes

Words incorrectly hyphenated

Look out for random hyphens in words. This is occurring when a word was broken and hyphenated at the end of a line in the pdf, like this:

These are easier to spot in the pdf as they will always occur at the end of a line. When you come across them, please delete the hyphen.

References in Acts

For references in the Acts, e.g.:

Please wrap these in {{*[annotation markup]}}.

Section numbers written out as words

Where there are section numbers in the text that are written as words and italicised, do not manually italicise them when cleaning up the document.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ESe6HHbX_iClb4WMNrYAJR5kYu34nrSt?usp=share_link
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14uXQCl9VxoApGyXBYeJAs23Qcc2pAAm8?usp=share_link
22 of 2001