Numbered section labels
- Forbidden
- "01", "02", "03" in small type beside section headings that are not a sequence
- Instead
- Number only a real order: steps to follow, a ranking, a procedure. Anything else keeps its heading and no number.
What this rule looks like
Why this rule
A number promises an order. A reader told there are three steps looks for what comes after the third, and a page that numbers its sections only because they are sections has promised something it does not deliver.
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- Generic-AI aesthetic
- Bucket
- hybrid
- Severity
- warning
- Detector
numbered-section-labels- Since
- v0.17.0