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Subheads
You can use a Subhead to give a title to a section within a Chapter. Subheads will appear in a style that matches your headings, and can be used to list the sections of your Chapter in your book’s Table of Contents.
Adding a Subhead
To add a Subhead to your book, select the text you’d like to use as your subhead and choose the Subhead item from the Text Feature menu:
Editing
When you click on a Subhead in Vellum’s Text Editor, blue brackets will appear to indicate selection:
Clicking again will allow you to edit the Subhead’s text.
Styling
The appearance of Subheads in your book will depend on your chosen Book Style:
Note: the Style demonstrated above automatically transforms the subhead into uppercase. Typically, you should leave your text in mixed case and let Vellum handle these transformations.
Since Subheads are used to introduce a new section or scene, the paragraph that immediately follows it will not be indented.
Subheads in the TOC
If your Subheads introduce important sections within each Chapter, you may want to include these titles in your book’s Table of Contents. You will find a List Subheads within Chapters control among options for your TOC.
Print Edition
In your print edition, Vellum will ensure that Subheads don’t appear by themselves at the bottom of a page. Should this occur, Vellum’s Automatic Layout will move the Subhead to the top of the next page.