What are references in Lawmaker?
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Valid internal references will show as purple , e.g. “section 3(2)(a)”
External references will show as blue, e.g. “section 7 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2000”
References that are invalid or have been manually altered are shown with different formatting which is described below in relation to specific features (the formatting is also summarised in the table here: Formatting of references). The formatting in the editor is not replicated in the PDF version of the document but references will become hyperlinks in the PDF that can be used to jump to the target of the reference.
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Once created, references can be manipulated and modified using the right-click context menu, the toolbar menus or by the floating toolbar, but the .
The text within them references can not still be directly edited in the Editor (to prevent but care should be taken in doing so. In a future release, the ability to edit text directly will be removed to reduce the risk of the metadata associated with the reference going out-of-sync with the text displayed).
For internal references, you can:
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Where however Lawmaker detects that the target of an existing reference has changed (e.g. because the context in which that reference sits has changed), the reference will be changed accordingly but it will be marked as requiring checking. Such references will appear brown in the Editor (e.g. “regulation 52”) and each one will also be highlighted with a document check error. From the document check panel, you can confirm that the reference remains valid or you can remove the reference mark-up if you think it is no longer appropriate.
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