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Subject: Dividers and fleurons
In certain types of print publications (say, opinion pieces written by a columnist for a weekly magazine or a newspaper) it is fairly typical that the author may organize his paragraphs into logical sections _without_ using subheadings. Instead, we may see a (more or less) graphical divider - often something simple, like these three asterisks, centered on a single line: * * * (Large round dots - such as U+25CF - or squares are also often seen instead of asterisks.) A similar practice can be encountered in books - especially old ones - where flower or leaf motifs (properly called "fleurons") may be used at the end of chapters, or for divisions within a chapter. Here are some fonts which contain such motifs... <http://www.myfonts.com/browse/keyword/fleuron/> ...and here's an article which discusses the topic: <http://www.wijnne.com/w/typography.html> * * * Now, my question becomes: what is the semantically correct way of marking up these kind of logical divisions within a DocBook (XML) document? In HTML documents, the closest logical markup equivalent would appear to be <hr> - the horizontal rule - but I could not find anything quite like that in DocBook. The only thing I could come up with was the <bridgehead> element, but I'm a bit undecided about it - is it appropriate to use it that way, or is there a better alternative? -- znark
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