Capital passage or not for chapter headings
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Hello. For a literary book for middle school students, the chapter headings are in print as follows:
CHAPTER ONE
EVAN DONNELLY
We are keeping it in all caps, on two lines as shown, and with no blank line between the two. Question is whether this should be a Capitalized Passage to encompass the heading 'group', or should each word should be shown as capitalized words? Thank you.
Great question! This is tricky. The answer depends on how print shows the headings.
Without actually seeing your headings, I cannot give one clear answer. Connected headings, rather than a single heading divided between lines, are often indicated by differences in capitalization, typeface, and size of font. Look at BF examples 4-3 and 4-4. These examples show distinction between the heading label and the connected heading. Does your book show any distinction between the label and the title headings?
If their is no distinction, the headings may be considered to be one heading simply divided between lines (for balance) throughout the transcription. The headings would be encapsulated by one set of passage indicators.
If there is distinction between the "Chapter One" and "Evan Donnelly," it is a connected heading. Accordingly, each heading is capitalized separately.
Thank you for the response. The font used for the EVAN DONNELLY is in BOLD whereas the CHAPTER ONE is just capitalized. So capitalizing separately is correct. However, should we have kept the bold typeform? Normally we remove those in an instance like this, but now I realize the “name” might be considered a distinction. Is that true?
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