Table of Contents
A contents page—a table or a list?
✅ NormativeSettled. The requirement holds as written.📄 Page ruleCan be applied from the page alone.Read §6.10 in the RFC ↗
A table of contents, table of authorities or index MUST be rendered as a list: one item per entry, nested as the page indents it, each item the label then its page number(s) exactly as printed, separated by a space. It MUST NOT be rendered as a table.
When it applies
A contents page pairs each label with a page number, usually across a dot leader.
Chapter 3 — Reserving . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter 4 — Pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Reading the examples. Each one pairs a source page with the output the rule expects. ✅ Sample: the rule applies. ❌ Counter-sample: it looks like it applies and does not, or a rendering got it wrong. A non-conforming output, in red, is shown only for contrast. … marks content left out of an excerpt.
Rendering
Printed: 1 Introduction .................... 3
1.1 Scope ...................... 4
2 Reserving ....................... 47
- 1 Introduction 3
- 1.1 Scope 4
- 2 Reserving 47
- Every printed entry MUST survive, with its page number(s) attached to the right label.
- The label and the number are separated by a single space. The dot leaders produce nothing — see Dot Leader Lines (§6.1).
- Nesting shown by indentation MUST be carried as list nesting, not flattened.
- An entry with several page references keeps them all, as printed:
HCR 2.603(A) 4-50, 4-57. - A contents page is navigation, not data: rendering it as a table would make it read as facts to anything that consumes the page. A list also holds a run of page references that a two-column table could only cram into one cell.
The exception is a contents page printed as a real ruled grid with column headers (Section | Title | Page). That is a table by the ordinary rules of Is This Even a Table (§9.1.5), not a contents
exception.
a table of authorities with several pages per entry
HCR 2.603(D) 3-27, 4-49, 4-54, … — each rule followed by a run of page references in blue,
no leaders, one to twelve references per line. A label paired with a list of numbers. The
entries form a list, each rule followed by its references; the blue is decoration. The
running header and footer bands open and close the page.
Source page
Expected output · excerpt
Table of Authorities: Halvana Court Rules Civil Proceedings Benchbook – Second Edition
- HCR 2.513(O) 7-54
- HCR 2.513(P) 7-54, 7-55
- HCR 2.514(A) 7-26, 7-56
…
- HCR 2.603 3-3, 3-25, 4-6, 4-55, 4-57, 4-59, 4-68, 8-2
- HCR 2.603(A) 4-50, 4-57
- HCR 2.603(B) 4-52, 4-53, 4-54, 4-58
- HCR 2.603(C) 9-71
- HCR 2.603(D) 3-27, 4-49, 4-54, 4-55, 4-56, 4-57, 4-58, 4-59, 4-60, 4-63
…
- HCR 2.612(C) 4-54, 4-61, 4-62, 4-63, 4-64, 4-65, 4-66, 4-67, 4-68, 8-4, 8-9, 8-14
- HCR 2.613(A) 4-29, 8-4
Halvana Judicial Institute TOA: HCRs – 9
Table of Authorities: Halvana Court Rules
Civil Proceedings Benchbook – Second Edition
- HCR 2.513(O) 7-54
- HCR 2.513(P) 7-54, 7-55
- HCR 2.514(A) 7-26, 7-56
<!-- … -->
- HCR 2.603 3-3, 3-25, 4-6, 4-55, 4-57, 4-59, 4-68, 8-2
- HCR 2.603(A) 4-50, 4-57
- HCR 2.603(B) 4-52, 4-53, 4-54, 4-58
- HCR 2.603(C) 9-71
- HCR 2.603(D) 3-27, 4-49, 4-54, 4-55, 4-56, 4-57, 4-58, 4-59, 4-60, 4-63
<!-- … -->
- HCR 2.612(C) 4-54, 4-61, 4-62, 4-63, 4-64, 4-65, 4-66, 4-67, 4-68, 8-4, 8-9, 8-14
- HCR 2.613(A) 4-29, 8-4
Halvana Judicial Institute TOA: HCRs – 9Neighbouring rules, and how they differ
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