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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Working with vintage fiction books -- I do often delete the word "chapter", but always do keep the numerals.
The one exception where I deleted the numerals also, was when it was actually a collection of short stories, not a novel.
For that very reason, in your example, the numerals will keep confusion to a minimum --- without those, the reader *might* surmise that it is a short story collection.
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The way I've been formatting the short story collections is each one has a separate title page in a separate file so there's a page break before and after it.
Some of the short stories or novelettes have chapters with these numbers in addition to regular titles. Likewise I've also combined a series of novels into a big book and each book has its own separate title page.