> Todd DeVries <mailto:todd@equaltext.com>
> 2. April 2017 um 01:47via Postbox 
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> Hello everyone,
>
> Thanks to all who helped me better understand the issues surrounding my
> question. The document style I am following requires that the
> first three headings are included in the table of contents. Headings
> one and two are easy, as they stand on lines by themself. Heading three
> must be aligned with the left margin in bold and followed by a period.
> The rest of the paragraph or paragraphs folllow.
>
> This style makes sense visually, bold text at the margin represents a
> change in topic. less so when reading or editing with audio output (My
> computer does not have a monitor attached.) Using good sectioning
> allows one to fold the document for navigation and organization.
> Consider how Org-mode in Emacs works as an analogue. I started thinking
> that life would be easier if heading level 3 sections could be both
> structural, for navigation, and visual, inline with their first
> paragraph.
>
> This idea holds true both in source text and in the pdf output.
> Properly tagged pdf documents allow one to jump by structural elements
> (heading to heading, paragraph to paragraph. In a perfect world one
> could have it both ways: a structural element like a section, but placed
> inline as though it were just another layout token. The audio using
> tagged structure indicates a topic change, while those using their eyes
> just see the bold text.
>
> Hopefully this short explanation adequately describes my reason for
> addressing the list.

The inline heading in your example doesn’t work because \startparagraph
forces the end of a paragraph for the preceding text.

As you want only tags for the content of your paragraph you can enclose
your text in \bpar … \epar instead of \startparagraph … \stopparagraph.

Wolfgang