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Chapter 13

13.99.

If leadering from the top line, overruns end with a period.

13.100.

A column of dates is regarded as a reading column only if leaders are added; in all other cases it is treated as a figure column.

13.101.

In tables with tracing figures on left and right of page, leader from top line.

Numerals in tables
13.102.

Figures, ordinals, and fractions are used in all parts of a table, except fractions which will be spelled out at the beginning of a footnote.

Parallel and divide tables are discouraged
13.103.

Parallel tables are set in pairs of pages, beginning on a left-hand page and running across to facing right-hand page; leader from the top line.

13.104.

Heads and headnotes center across the pair of pages, with 2-em hanging indention for three or more lines when combined measure exceeds 30 picas in width. Two-line heads are set across the pair of pages. A single-line head or headnote is divided evenly, each part set flush right and left, respectively Words are not divided between pages.

13.105.

Boxheads and horizontal rules align across both pages.

13.106.

Boxheads are not divided but are repeated, with Continued added.

13.107.

Tracing figures are carried through from the outside columns of both pages and are set to "leader from the top line."

13.108.

In divide tables that are made up parallel, with stub column repeated, the head and headnote repeat on each succeeding page, with Continued added to the head only.

13.109.

Tables with tracing figures or stub, or both, repeating on the left of odd pages, are divide tables and not parallel tables. Over such tables the heads are repeated, with Continued added.