Shabash Merops
Document structure
Merops contains over 190 customizable rules relating to document structure. Merops can automatically identify the components of a document, and standardize based on context.
The information below describes just a small percentage of the rules Merops can apply to the document structure.
Header and end section
Merops can automatically identify the various header and end section items based on their context, content and formatting. As well as applying the correct paragraph style, here are a few other things Merops can standardize:
Author list and affiliations
- cross-checking footnotes, with different symbols styles for different footnote types
- formatting, punctuation and sequence of author names
- capitalization and sequence of addresses
Correspondence information
- punctuation, formatting, and sequence
- alerting missing required details and deleting non-required details
Keywords
- alphabetic sorting
- wording and capitalization of heading
- punctuation between keywords
Glossary
- alphabetic sorting
- term/definition sequence and punctuation
- alerting abbrevations found in the document but not in the glossary
Other examples of header items Merops can identify and standardize include the document title, abstract, table of contents, running title, and document history information.
Body text
Merops can automatically identify the structure of paragraphs in the document body, based on their context, content and formatting. For example:
- list styles are applied to sequential numbered or bulleted paragraphs;
- a ‘displayed quotation’ style is applied to paragraphs wholly enclosed by quote marks.
Headings
Merops can automatically apply the correct hierarchy to headings and can standardize:
- preset headings (e.g. Methods and Materials, Abstract)
- capitalization
- paragraph style
- generate or delete heading numbers
Merops can automate the time-consuming task of changing titles and headings from upper case into ‘sentence’ or ‘title’ case, while ensuring that document elements such as place names, chemical and biological terms and acronyms, are not changed in error.
Merops hosts data tables of persistent heading names, e.g. INTRODUCTION, Patients & methods, Acknowledgements. These tables, which support international languages, can be maintained and improved by individual users, or database administrators if a centralized solution is required.
Footnotes
Merops cross-checks and makes consistent footnote links.
Standardization
- cross-checks footnote sequence and completeness
- caters for Arabic and Roman numbering
- encompasses various word-processor footnote functions
