> Bill Meahan <mailto:subscribed_lists@meahan.net>
> 11. November 2013 18:51
>
>
> 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
Take a look at the fancybreak module: 
http://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/t-fancybreak/doc/context/third/fancybreak/fancybreak-doc.pdf

Wolfgang