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A list of terms that are used in Lawmaker, the help documentation or in drafting and managing legislation with explanations of what they mean.

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Abbreviation or term

Description

Content Completion Assistant (CCA)

The element insert menu that pops up when you press Enter

Demote

Changing an element into the next logical element further down in the hierarchy, e.g. you can demote a paragraph to a sub-paragraph

LDAPP

Legislative Drafting, Amending, and Publishing Programme

Lawmaker

The name of the application and the service

Promote

Changing an element into the next logical element higher up in the hierarchy, e.g. you can promote a sub-paragraph to a paragraph

Quoted structure

Textual amendment

Structure View

The outline view of the document in the left-hand panel

Unwrap

Removing a grouping level element e.g. Part or Chapter which will remove the start and end tags that are ‘wrapping’ the child provisions within them e.g. sections

Wrap

The term given when inserting a grouping element e.g. Part or Chapter.  In XML terms, the child provisions are encapsulated within the start and end tags of the grouping element which is where the notion of ‘wrap’ comes from

X-ref

Cross reference

MFA

Multi-Factor Authentication