Part C – Guidelines for Procedural Aspects of Substantive Examination
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Chapter V – The final stage of examination

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Chapter V – Annex
Standard marks for indicating amendments or corrections by the divisions

1.  Insertion of letters and words

Any insertion made using the in-house electronic tool is done in the text itself. No separate marks are needed in the margins or at the top or bottom of the page.

In the PDF file created from the working copy of the document prepared for the printer ("Druckexemplar"), the tool will insert change bars to the right of amendments and indicate amended pages as such. The tool also adds pairs of insertion signs to mark the beginning and end of each insertion:

Mark

Explanation

 

Denotes the beginning of text inserted

 

Denotes the end of text inserted

"No break", "line break" or "paragraph break" signs precede and follow the signs above to indicate whether the inserted text should be kept in the same line or if a new line or paragraph should start before or after the inserted text:

Mark

Explanation

 

No breaks: inserted text is kept on the same line (this is the default)

 

Line break: starts a new line (must be set if needed)

¶

Paragraph break: starts a new paragraph (must be set if needed)

If inserting an entire newly filed page, e.g. a page numbered "1a", the instruction [insert page 1a] is used.

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