[U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual]
[Chapter 14 - Leaderwork]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                             14. LEADERWORK

  (See also ``Abbreviations and Letter Symbols'' and ``Tabular Work'')

  14.1. Leaderwork is a simple form of tabular work without 
boxheads or rules and is separated from text by 4 points of 
space above and below in solid matter and 6 points of space in 
leaded matter. It consists of a reading (stub) column and a 
figure column, leadered from the bottom line. It may also 
consist of two reading columns, aligning on the top line. In 
general, leaderwork (except indexes and tables of contents, 
which are set the same style as text) is governed by the same 
rules of style as tabular work. Unless otherwise indicated, 
leaderwork is set in 8 point. The period is omitted immediately 
before leaders.

Bearoff

  14.2. No bearoff is required at the right in a single reading
column.

Columns

  14.3. A figure column is at least an en quad wider than the 
largest group of figures, but not less than 3 ems in single 
columns and 2 ems in double-up columns. Total rules are to be 
the full width of all figure columns.
                                                                  Pounds
Year: 1998....................................................   655,939
Fiscal year:
    1999......................................................   368,233
    2000......................................................   100,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________

      Total................................................... 1,124,172

  14.4. Where both columns are reading columns, they are 
separated by an em space.

 
          Particulars                             Artist
 
To the French Government:
  The entire collection of       Degas.
   French paintings on loan,
   with the exception of Mlle.
   DuBourg (Mme. Fantin-Latour).
  Avant la Course..............      Do.
To Col. Axel H. Oxholm,
 Washington, DC:
  Martha Washington, George      Attributed to Jonathan E. Earl, Los
   Washington, and Thomas         Angeles, CA.
   Jefferson.
  Roses........................  Renoir.
      Do.......................  Forain.
  Roses in a Chinese Vase and    Vuillard.
   Sculpture by Maillol.
  Maternity....................  Gauguin.
 


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Continued heads

  14.5. The use of continued heads in leaderwork is not 
necessary.

Ditto (do.)

  14.6. The abbreviation do. is indented and capitalized in the 
stub. It is capitalized and cleared in last reading column.

Dollar mark and ciphers

  14.7. In a column containing mixed amounts (as money, tons, 
gallons, etc.) the figures are aligned on the right, and the 
dollar mark or other symbol is repeated before each sum of 
money. If several sums of money are grouped and added or 
subtracted to make a total, they are separated from the 
nonmoney group by a parallel rule, and the symbol is placed on 
the first figure of the separated group only.

  14.8. If two columns of sums of money add or subtract one 
into the other and one carries points and ciphers, the other 
should also carry points and ciphers.

Flush items and subheads

  14.9. Flush items clear the figure column.

  14.10. Subheads are centered in full measure.

Footnotes

  14.11. Footnotes to leaderwork follow the style of footnotes 
to
tables.

  14.12. Footnote references begin with 1 in each leadered 
grouping, and footnotes are placed at the end, separated from 
it by 4 points of space. Separate notes from matter following 
by not less than 6 points of space.

  14.13. If the leaderwork runs over from one page to another, 
the footnotes will be placed at the bottom of the leadered 
material.\1\
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  \1\ If footnotes to leaderwork and text fall at bottom of page, 
leaderwork footnotes are placed above text footnotes. The two groups 
are separated by a 50-point rule.
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Units of quantity

  14.14. Units of quantity or other words over a stub or figure 
column are set italic.

  14.15. The following example shows the style to be observed 
where there is a short colon line at left. In case of only one 
subentry, run in with colon line and preserve the colon.
                                                                    Tons
Baltimore & Ohio RR.:
    Freight carried:
        May.......................................................50,000
        June......................................................52,000
    Coal carried..................................................90,000
Dixie RR.: Freight carried Jan. 1, 1999, including freight carried 
    by all its subsidiaries....................................\1\ 2,000

\1\ Livestock not included.

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  14.16. If there is no colon line, the style is as follows:
                                                                    Tons
Freight carried by the Dixie RR. and the Baltimore & Ohio
  RR. in May......................................................71,500

  14.17. Explanatory matter is set in 6 point under leaders 
(note omission of period):

                     .............................  .............................  .............................
                                 (Name)                       (Address)                      (Position)
 

  14.18. In blank forms, leaders used in place of complete 
words to be supplied are preceded and followed by a space.

        On this .................................... day of 
        ........................................ 19 ......

  14.19. In half measure doubled up, units of quantity are 
aligned across the page.

 
                                    Inches                        Inches
 
Seedlings:
  Black locust....................      27      Osage-orange....      20
  Honey locust....................      16      Catalpa.........      16
  Green ash.......................       7      Black walnut....      10
 

  14.20. Mixed units of quantity and amounts and words in a 
figure column are set as follows:

Capital invested..................................................$8,000
Value of implements and stock.....................................$3,000
Land under cultivation (acres).................................... 128.6
Orchard (acres)...................................................  21.4
Forest land (square miles)........................................    50
Livestock:
    Horses:
        Number....................................................     8
        Value.....................................................$1,500
    Cows:
        Number....................................................    18
        Estimated weekly production of butter per milk cow 
          (pounds)................................................7\1/2\
    Hogs:
        Number....................................................    46
        Loss from cholera.........................................  None

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