MIL-STD-38784A
end of the manual, such pages shall follow the last chapter, appendix or index, whichever
forms the last portion.
e. Maximum foldout page sizes and maximum printable area for foldout pages shall be as follows:
Manual Size
Foldout Maximum Page Size
Foldout Maximum
(including blank apron)
Printable Area
4x8
24
x
8
#19½ x 7½
5½ x 7
35
x
7
*28¾ x 6 ¼
5x8
31
x
8
#25½ x 7½
8½ x 11
45
x
11
†36 x 10
# Minimum margins: ¼-inch top, bottom and side opposite binding edge.
* Minimum margins: ¼-inch top, ½-inch bottom and side opposite binding edge.
† Minimum margins: ½-inch top and bottom, ¼-inch side opposite binding edge.
(F) Electronic presentation: There shall be no foldout pages in electronic display. Instead, the foldout
graphics shall only be listed in the List of Instructions (LOI).
4.2.4.2 Multisheet illustrations. Print presentation: When an illustration exceeds one page but will not be
prepared as a foldout, the illustration shall be divided and planned for presentation on facing pages and
numbered in accordance with 4.2.2.2.2. Sheet 3, Sheet 4, etc, can be planned for succeeding pages when
required and if this treatment will not affect the usefulness of the manual.
4.2.5 Emergency page markings. Emergency information shall be marked as follows:
Print presentation: Pages shall contain a broken black border in accordance with the requirements of igure
3. FRC for emergency pages shall be ¼-inch oversize to ensure proper printing of the bleed borders.
Emergency page markings are not considered margin data.
(F) Electronic presentation: An emergency border (black and red stripe) shall frame the scrollable
text window/pane within the client area.
4.2.6 Indentations. All lines on warnings, cautions and notes (see 3.2.38, 3.2.4 and 3.2.24) shall be indented
ive spaces or characters from both left and right margins. When the right margin is unjustiied, indentations
of ive spaces shall be from the maximum allowable width of the typed text. Procedural steps in a
paragraph structure shall be indented as described in 4.2.9.5.3. Procedural steps in other structures, e.g. on a
table, shall have substeps indented two spaces. Each level of substep shall be indented an additional two
spaces. When step numbers require double characters (aa., (10), (aa), etc.), the number shall be indented
only one space in order to maintain right justiication of the numbers. For example:
z.
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
(9)
aa.
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxx
(10)
4.2.7.1 Table titles. Tables shall be assigned table titles. The title shall follow two spaces after the table
number and shall be centered above the applicable table. The irst letter of the irst word and of each
principal word shall be capitalized. Table titles should begin with an identifying name. For example: "Table
3-1. Guidance System Test Points." The title shall be short and describe the contents or purpose of the
table. Tables applicable to one Service, in a manual that will be used by more than one Service, shall be
identiied. For example: "Table 2-3. (Army Only) Fuel Indicator Correction Factors."
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