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The Description of Map Units (DMU) sections that appear in some USGS documents are often more complex than standard abbreviations lists or glossaries; for example, they often contain subheadings and citations. To support this complexity, DMU sections have a unique set of paragraph styles that must be carefully applied to produce valid and correct XML.

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Although DMU sections can appear at either the start or end of the document, DMU-specific styles are located on the Back1 Tab of the eXtyles style pallet. A DMU section, when properly styled, will look something like the image to the right.

Paragraph Styling

Definitions Title (Front) / Definitions Title (Back)

The Definitions Title (Front or Back) style should be used to style the Description of Map Units title, depending on where the section falls in the document.

Definitions List Subhead 1 and 2

If the DMU section contains subheadings (as in the example), use these styles regardless of whether the DMU section is at the start or end of the document.

DMU List Item

The text of the DMU list item should be styled with the DMU List Item paragraph style. Do not use the regular Definition List Item paragraph style for this section, else citation matching will pass over the content.

DMU and Citation Matching

eXtyles Citation Matching will run on a properly styled DMU section (see the image to the right). However, note that in an eXtyles workflow, tagged (i.e., styled with the turquoise eXtyles cite_bib character style) citations are not supported in a term of the definition paragraph.

In the example to the right, notice that the (Conrad 1839) citation has had the cite_bib character style removed (using Ctrl + Space). To avoid parsing errors during XML Export, you must ensure that no tagging remains on any citations that appear within the term of the definition paragraph, or move those citations from the bold term to within the body of the definition.

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