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Add note about short works that don't have chapters or acts
Guidance previously did not cover one-act plays that are not long enough to need division but that are not part of collections. Several examples exist in the corpus, including the one I added as an example.
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#. Numbers in filenames don’t include leading :path:`0`\s.
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#. Files containing a short story, essay, or other short work in a larger collection, are named with the URL-safe title of the work, excluding any subtitles.
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#. Files containing a short story, essay, or other short work in a larger collection, are named with the URL-safe title of the work, excluding any subtitles. Works that are a single part (such as a one-act play) likewise have their one bodymatter file named as such.
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Work Filename
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A short story named “The Variable Man” :path:`the-variable-man.xhtml`
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A short story named “The Sayings of Limpang-Tung (The God of Mirth and of Melodious Minstrels)” :path:`the-sayings-of-limpang-tung.xhtml`
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A one-act play named "The Libation Bearers" :path:`the-libation-bearers.xhtml`
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#. Works that are divided into larger parts (sometimes called “parts,” “books,” “volumes,” “sections,” etc.) have their part divisions contained in individual files named after the type of part, followed by a number starting at :path:`1`.

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