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Q&A Should I put colons with second-level titles?

I'm writing a documentation for an eGovernment project, so the document I'm writing is a scientific document. It contains some big ideas, each having some subideas, with each subidea having a numbe...

2 answers  ·  posted 12y ago by Tamer Shlash‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T02:18:43Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/5454
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Tamer Shlash‭ · 2019-12-08T02:18:43Z (over 4 years ago)
I'm writing a documentation for an eGovernment project, so the document I'm writing is a scientific document. It contains some big ideas, each having some subideas, with each subidea having a number of paragraphs.

The question is that at the title of each subidea (wich contains only paragraphs, no free text), should I put colons?

The paragraphs contain explanations sometimes, so should I put colons for the paragraphs' titles?

This is an example:

> # Motivating People
>  
> ## Reputation System
>  
> ### Needs for reputation system
> It's needed due to several reasons (so mentioning the reasons). 
> ### Mechanism
> The system works as follows: (so mentioning how it works). 
> ## Trust System
> .......

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-04-17T18:12:52Z (about 12 years ago)
Original score: 1