When drafting a textual amendment within a Bill or SI that does not involve inserting a whole provision (e.g. just a word or phrase), rather than using plain quote marks, you can use the ‘Quoted Text’ element in Lawmaker to represent the text that is being left out, inserted or substituted.
For instance, quoted text can be used in the following examples:
for “£50,000” substitute “£60,000”
In subsection (1), after “police,” insert “tri-service serious crime unit,”
In section 2, insert at the end “or to a limited liability partnership”
Quoted Text elements should not be used in the instruction line of a parliamentary amendment
Using the Quoted Text element will help with the downstream data publishing and improves Lawmaker functionalities such as the Tag References feature
How to insert quoted text
A ‘Quoted Text’ element can be inserted from the Content Completion Assistant by pressing Enter in the Editor and selecting Quoted text. This will create an empty ‘Quoted text’ placeholder with opening and closing quote marks.
It is currently not possible to paste within a Quoted Text element - future releases of Lawmaker will remove this restriction
Changing quote marks
When you insert a quoted text, by default double inverted commas (“ and “) are automatically inserted as quote marks. These quote marks can be removed or altered if necessary, by right-clicking within the quoted text and selecting Update quoted text properties.
Setting the quote marks to ‘none’ can be particularly useful when the quoted text needs to be followed by a quoted structure.
Inserting a quoted structure immediately after a quoted text
To insert a quoted structure immediately after a quoted text either:
right-click in the Editor and select Insert Quoted Structure
use the CTRL+Q keyboard shortcut, or
From the Insert menu on the toolbar, select Insert Quoted Structure.