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3. Titles and headings.

Titles of complete documents should follow the standard English rules for capitalization: all the words in the title are capitalized except prepositions, unless the preposition is the first word in the title. The title does include a period, although question marks and exclamation points can be used as in body text.

Headings and subheadings should be punctuated as normal sentences: the first word is capitalized, and the heading has a period, question mark, or other punctuation at the end.

Do not use more than two levels of headings: with SGML-Tools, that means only the <sect> and <sect1> tags are used.

If you need to use a third level of subheading, which will not appear in the table of contents, do not use a heading that is set off from the text; i.e., set the heading in italics or bold type as the first sentence of the first paragraph of the sub-subsection. This corresponds to the \paragraph* and \sub-paragraph* LaTeX commands, which at the time of this writing have no corresponding LinuxDoc DTD equivalent.


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