On 11/10/2013 10:12 AM, Francisco Gracia wrote:
*Fleurons* are small decorative pieces that were often used in the
past for filling big blank spaces in books. They are seldom used
nowdays. As besides they will not appear more than a few times in any
book (mainly at the end of chapters), the easiest thing to do if one
insists in using them (for instance for simulating an old edition of
some past work) is to arrange its presence manually in the source
document in the way one would do for any other figure or piece of text.
The following has worked quite well for me. I hate using a centered "* *
*" for a thematic break so I use a fleuron. I write fiction, not
math-filled academic-journal articles or textbooks so this may not be
applicable in your case.
First, I use one of many available "dingbat" fonts to provide the
fleuron. I am partial to the curly-ques in Nymphette (a
readily-available free font) but there are many others.
In my preamble I define:
\definefont[FleuronFont] [nymphette sa 1.5]
Then where I want to place a fleuron I can do something like this.
\midaligned{{\MedBlue \FleuronFont g}}
In this case, the text letter 'g' corresponds to the particular little
symbol I want.
YMMV
--
Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan
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