From: Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Using *fleurons*
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:51:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52811927.1070009@meahan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACiybx7WVsQdLarHujdyDURQHtavN7AA5LKqCpGPFby1EvJDwQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-10 15:12 Francisco Gracia
2013-11-10 18:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-11-11 17:51 ` Bill Meahan [this message]
2013-11-11 21:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-11-11 21:40 Francisco Gracia
2013-11-11 21:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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