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Originally Posted by theducks

I poorly worded my answer.
Yes I have seen double BR used before. But never with a non printing line on the beginning side of the cluster. I use Padding to manage space in those cases. I reserve BR to split printed lines <h3 class="chapno">Chapter 0 <br /><span class="chsubtitle">Nothing come from Nothing</span></h3>

Now the Sigil TOC has both pieces and the chapter heading looks

I basically wanted to modify the layout of the epub files prior to conversion to lit and mobi with Calibre and didn't want to do too much work on them.

I get what you're saying.

Thanks again.