A publication style guide indicates that for a table heading like the
following,
Table 3. Wheat and rye harvest in European countries in years that end in 3
or 7 or when a new prime minister takes office.
when the heading flows over more than one line, a hanging indent should be
used, such that the remainder of the heading should be left-aligned, in this
example, with "Wheat", leaving "Table 3. " standing off by itself on the
left.
The style guide was created by print-based designers, and some of their
guidelines will need to be altered or scrapped for web publication. But is
there some way to fulfill this particular guideline as specified on the WWW?
The problem is that the width of the indent has to be dynamic, since the
table designator's width depends on the font and on its content (which could
just as well be Table 37M). The distance between the first period and the
following word is specified as two em spaces, which maybe padding or a
margin could take care of.
I suppose this should all be in a CAPTION element, but alternatively it
could be an H1 preceding the TABLE element.
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Harlan Messinger
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