Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele:
> If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having 
> their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each 
> one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still 
> unsolved, I think.
>
> ———
>
> In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, 
> fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in 
> published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt 
> Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between 
> two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as 
> horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 
> marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional 
> dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the 
> author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in 
> paragraph but short of an outright new chapter.
>
> \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank}

\define\FancyBreak
   {\blank
    \midaligned{* * *}
    \blank}

Wolfgang

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