On Mon, February 28, 2011 1:18 am, don kretz wrote:
Besides, what is a Chapter title? It, too is a paragraph, in most cases!
It's what goes into the Table of Contents in an ebook. And ebooks for the most part don't let you pass "Go" without distinct chapters in hand. So you won't get far with only undifferentiated chapter headings.
No, a Chapter title is "a descriptive name, caption, or heading of a division of a written work, especially a narrative." Sometimes, these chapter titles are collected into a Table of Contents (which, technically, is part of a book's metadata, and not part of the book itself) and sometimes they are not, but inclusion in a Table of Contents is not that which defines the essence of a Chapter title; it is only a manifestation thereof. So, it seems to me that the way to mark up a chapter title is to first identify "a division of a written work," and then to find the "name, caption or heading" within that division and mark it as a "title". Semantics, not presentation. What It Is, not What It Looks Like.