Library of Formatting Examples:Tables/09A
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Correctly-formatted text
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<sc>Table Showing Changes in Period, etc.</sc>--<i>continued.</i> /* +------------------+----------+--------------------+----------------------+ | | Period. | Premium and | Wages (per week) | | | | Indentures. | during | | | | | Apprenticeship | | | | | | +------------------+----------+--------------------+----------------------+ | | | | | |5. <sc>Printer's.</sc> | | | | | | | | | |25 years ago | 3 years | No premium; |18 months 2<i>s.</i>, | | | | no indentures | 18 months half pay. | | | | | | |At present time | 1-1/2 " | " " |1 month no pay, | | | | | 5 month 2<i>s.</i>, | | | | | 12 months half pay. | | | | | | |6. <sc>Stationer's.</sc> | | | | | | | | | |40 years ago | 2 " | " " |12 months half | | | | | pay, 12 months | | | | | three-quarter | | | | | pay. | | | | | | |At present time | 1-1/2 " | " " |12 months half | | | | | pay, 6 months | | | | | three-quarter | | | | | pay. | */ |
Heading and markup considerations
Since the ebook has no pages, this part of the table will be appended to the part on the preceding page (not shown in these examples), so the headings probably are unnecessary.
Putting the heading of the 3rd column on two lines made it possible to bring the table width down to 75 characters. We are allowed considerable leeway when formatting tables, but it often will not be possible to make them as narrow as the guidelines would like. Just do your best. This table contains small caps and italics, so some extra planning is necessary: in plain text, small caps become all caps, so just align such text as ordinary text and add the markups after the table is finished. In plain text, italics will be indicated by _underscores_, so most of us select two symbols that don't appear on the page, and use them as placeholders: one where each opening italics markup will go, and the other where each closing italics markup will go. (We do the same for bold by substituting two other unused symbols.) After aligning the data in the columns and finishing the table, we change all of the "opening" symbols to opening italics markups, and change all of the "closing" symbols to closing italics markups. The resulting table will no longer look aligned, but the post-processors will make it look pretty. There are other considerations, but that's more than enough for now.
Plain text output
Below is how the markup above will appear in plain text.
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TABLE SHOWING CHANGES IN PERIOD, ETC.--_continued._ +------------------+----------+--------------------+----------------------+ | | Period. | Premium and | Wages (per week) | | | | Indentures. | during | | | | | Apprenticeship | | | | | | +------------------+----------+--------------------+----------------------+ | | | | | |5. PRINTER'S. | | | | | | | | | |25 years ago | 3 years | No premium; |18 months 2_s._, | | | | no indentures | 18 months half pay. | | | | | | |At present time | 1-1/2 " | " " |1 month no pay, | | | | | 5 month 2_s._, | | | | | 12 months half pay. | | | | | | |6. STATIONER'S. | | | | | | | | | |40 years ago | 2 " | " " |12 months half | | | | | pay, 12 months | | | | | three-quarter | | | | | pay. | | | | | | |At present time | 1-1/2 " | " " |12 months half | | | | | pay, 6 months | | | | | three-quarter | | | | | pay. | |