Horizontal rule: Change the rule style
What options are there for setting the presentation style of a horizontal rule?
Well and Bucket in the form of a capital A
The horizontal rule (<hr> tag) is normally a blunt instrument. To make it more useful, Wikipublisher lets authors and administrators interpret horizontal rule markup (----) in a number of ways:
- as a rule
- as an ornament (sometimes called a fleuron)
- as a vertical space
Try different rule settings. Press the “options” button and look under Text settings for Rule style and Rule style repeat.
By default, the PDF generates a single centred ornament.
Authors can use the hrstyle metadata type to set the ornament, shown in A selection of ornaments. The numeric values were chosen from the Zapf Dingbats font; see Mittelbach and Goossens (2004, Table 7.9: p 379). Choosing the “space” style omits the ornament and inserts a vertical space. Administrators can also replace the ornament with a rule, by setting $WPhrStyle = 'solid'; in local/config.php, before loading the Wikipublisher extensions.
| Use value | To produce |
|---|---|
| 105 | clover cross |
| 150 | sparkle cross |
| 166 | diamond cross |
| 121 | bold asterisk |
| 122 | open asterisk |
| 133 | petal asterisk |
| 134 | open petal asterisk |
| 140 | five petal flower |
| 144 | snowflake |
| 246 | aldus leaf |
| 247 | hedera leaf |
| 040 | space |
| asterisk | asterisk |
The hrrepeat meta type determines whether Wikipublisher produces 1 or 3 ornaments. The default is 1; authors can set hrrepeat=on to produce a row of 3. Regardless of the rule style used, the paragraph after the rule starts flush left, i.e. without the usual 1 em indent.
Category: markup
References for 00024
(edit)Mittelbach, F. and Goossens, M. (2004). The LATEX Companion. 2nd Ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
