Posted by BitPuffin on May 28, 2016; 1:55am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/Section-Break-Paragraph-Style-tp4732.html

Hello folks! I've been using Asciidoc to try to write some fiction. And there are two issues that I've encountered thus far.

The first is that I haven't found any way to create a section break. A section break is the thing that is somewhere between a paragraph and a whole new chapter. It is usually delimited by a completely blank line in books of fiction, or with a line separating the sections. Here are two such examples from The Name of the Wind and Fahrenheit 451. (Unfortunately I did not check them after I took the photos that they were oriented correctly so please tilt your heads lol).

Is there a way to make one of these with AsciiDoc? The closest I have come to it is to do '<<<<<' which fills out the entire page with blank, but that's not quite what I want.

Second, the paragraph style, usually in fiction books, the paragraph formatting is such that when a new paragraph starts it's simple one newline (no empty newline) and a leading indentation, is there a way to configure asciidoc to do this instead, because I really just want section breaks to look like paragraphs normally do sort of (though maybe two blank lines not sure, I'll take whatever I can get, as long as I know the syntax for it).

And those are my two questions, otherwise I'm quite enjoying the tool, it's quite nice to do the whole 1 sentence per line thing for example, which I can't really do in a word processor since that also encapsulate the formatting.

Cheers.