substub

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ stub

Noun

substub (plural substubs)

  1. (typography, in tabular matter) A subheading below a stub (stub head) in a table; a stub subordinate to another stub.
    • 1992, Joel P. Bowman, Bernadine P. Branchaw, “Special techniques: headings, lists, and tables”, in How to Write Proposals that Produce, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 97:
      The first column on the left is the stub column. Its heading is referred to as the stub head. A stub is a title for a row of (horizontal) data. Should a stub column contain substubs, then the substubs are indented two or three spaces to show that they are subordinate to the stub item.
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