Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

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

Am 07.06.10 02:03, schrieb Scott Steele:
>
>      > 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.
>
>
>     \unprotect
>     [...]
>     \protect
>
>     \starttext
>     \input knuth
>     \fancybreak{$* * *$}
>     \input ward
>     \stoptext
>
>     Wolfgang
>
>
> Thanks a lot for all of that! I'm having trouble getting it to run,
> though. I tried copy/pasting it into the Context Live site but get

I wrote now a module for this, you can download it from here: 
http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/fancybreak

Wolfgang
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