General ⇒ horizontal line separator

[antosha]

Could you please tell me how can i separate parts of the text with a horizontal line or tilde or whatever.
This is usually used to separate the introduction from the main text,
or to separate poems.
You know?

[localghost]

If you could describe more precisely what you want to do and what is the sense behind that, we might be able to get an idea how to solve this issue. For the present you can try a \rule command to get such a separation.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[antosha]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I mean this:
In some of the books the text is organized liked this:


bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla

-------

Thefore bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla




or like this


bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla

****

bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla





You know what i mean now?
I don't even know how is this called. (paragraph separator? )

The line and the stars should be in the centred. (I wasn't able to do that in this reply)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

perhaps there's a package aimed at this. Here's an example how you could do it by yourself:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,english]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

\newcommand*\sepline{%
  \begin{center}
    \rule[1ex]{.5\textwidth}{.5pt}
  \end{center}}

\newcommand*\sepstars{%
  \begin{center}
    $\star\star\star$
  \end{center}}

\begin{document}
\blindtext

\sepline

\blindtext

\sepstars

\blindtext
\end{document}

Stefan

[localghost]

Another basic structure could look like the following.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[centering,includeheadfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{txfonts}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \bigskip
  \centerline{**********}

  \bigskip
  \blindtext
\end{document}

[antosha]

The

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\centerline

worked just fine.
Thank you!

Is there a proper name for this?
So, that the editor can change the line(or stars) to whatever symbol is preferred by the publisher.
How long should this line (stars) be? Is there a standard for this?

Thanks