Accomodate diff from Law text

[GraylinKim]

Each bill has the diff from the law built into it.

Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.

This is also useful information that should be accounted for. We'd need to parse out these bits from the bill text and reformat accordingly.

[stefancrain]

Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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In regard to the message, While it says things are in italics and underlined, the translation is actually: New = UPPERCASE Removed = [text in brackets]

Should we treat this text differently from the diff?

[GraylinKim]

It seems to me that we have a few different options here:

• Law <-> Bill
• Bill <-> Amendment
• Law <-> Amendment

Maybe the right thing to do is make these options part of the interface and render which-ever the user wants. I guess I can't think of a practical use case where someone would want to see more than one at once.

[stefancrain]

When we are looking at Bill <-> Amendment should we normalize the uppercase / bracketed text?

For others, here's our Diff logic:

Bill <-> Amendment

Generated by our pretty diff generator

Law <-> Bill 

The uppercase / bracketed text in the original Bill

Law <-> Amendment 

The uppercase / bracketed text in the amended Bill

[GraylinKim]

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