Handbook of Style in Use At the Riverside Press Cambridge Massachusetts

authorities may be used if bad spacing can thus be prevented. Avoid turning over a final syllable of only two letters, except in narrow measure. Avoid dividing a compound word except between its component parts. Avoid dividing a word in the last line of a page. Avoid divisions in more than three successive lines, unless very bad spacing would result. THE USE OF FIGURES Spell out, in ordinary jeading matter, all round numbers and numbers of less than three digits, unless of a statistical or technical character, and unless occurring in groups of six or more, following one another in close succession. Treat all numbers in connected groups alike: if the largest contains three or more digits, use figures for all. Spell out words to express ages; as, The school ages are from five to eighteen. Spell out numbers of centuries, of sessions of Congress, of political divisions, of streets, avenues, etc., and references to particular decades, unless the saving of space is essential; as, eighteenth century; seventeenth-century writers; Second Dynasty ; Sixty-first Congress, First Session; Second Congressional District; Eighth Ward; Fifty-ninth Street and Ninth Avenue; in the early eighties. Spell out numbers of army corps, divisions, brigades; use figures for regiments; as, Sixth Corps, First Division, Second Brigade, 41st Massachusetts, zd Cavalry, 1st Battalion. But where only an isolated reference is made to one or more regiments, and the corps or di...