{

}

Field marker

Inserted via CRTL-F9 in MS Word or via the CIB officeControlBlocks plug-in for LibreOffice. This always inserts a field, i.e. an area marked with an opening and a closing bracket.

{

}

Curly bracket

Normal textual bracket, usually always in pairs.

#

Start character script field

Marks a field as a script field. The content of this field will be interpreted by CIB jsMerge.

‘

Escape-character LibreOffice

In order to use reserved characters as the first character in a script field (e.g. #), they have to be escaped with the apostrophe.

‘

Escape-character
 MS Word

In MS-Word, a content field must begin with the apostrophe to distinguish it from a standard MS-Word field.

|

Pipe-character

In LibreOffice, the field result is attached to the field instruction, separated by the pipe symbol“|”.