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I want to get the line similar to the one in PRL articles at the end. I don't want to use RevTex but can't figure out a simple way of doing it in Latex. Any help will be appreciated.example of line I want

Ankush
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    Hi, welcome to TeX.SX. There is a similar question at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32711/totally-sweet-horizontal-rules-in-latex. None of the examples are identical to your image, but you could perhaps use dreamlax' answer if you have an image file containing that line. – Torbjørn T. Aug 30 '13 at 05:52

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Here's an elementary, yet visually similar, approach:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{graphicx,lipsum}
\newcommand{\PRLsep}{\noindent\makebox[\linewidth]{\resizebox{0.3333\linewidth}{1pt}{$\bullet$}}\bigskip}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\PRLsep

\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

\PRLsep is a scaled/flattened version of $\bullet$ - 1/3 of \linewidth wide and 1pt tall.

Werner
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I extended the example. Now, you can write a text between the seperator. But it is not perfect. The length measurement of \blacktriangleleft gives 7.7778pt, but this includes the white space arround it. So this space is also stretched. The calc-Package is required.

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\newlength{\PRLlen}
\newcommand*\PRLsep[1]{\settowidth{\PRLlen}{#1}\advance\PRLlen by -\textwidth\divide\PRLlen by -2\noindent\makebox[\the\PRLlen]{\resizebox{\the\PRLlen}{1pt}{$\blacktriangleleft$}}\raisebox{-.5ex}{#1}\makebox[\the\PRLlen]{\resizebox{\the\PRLlen}{1pt}{$\blacktriangleright$}}\bigskip}
\PRLsep{Text}
Drakonomikon
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With TikZ:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newlength{\diamondrulelength}
\setlength{\diamondrulelength}{0.6\textwidth}
\newlength{\diamondrulethickness}
\setlength{\diamondrulethickness}{2pt}
\newcommand{\diamondrule}{\begin{center}\tikz{\fill[black] (0.5\diamondrulelength,0) -- (0,0.5\diamondrulethickness) -- (-0.5\diamondrulelength,0) -- (0,-0.5\diamondrulethickness) -- cycle;}\end{center}}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\diamondrule

\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
Astrinus
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    you can at least do it with some TikZ keys instead of blocking two more registers. Use \centering in a group instead center environment. – percusse Mar 08 '16 at 08:10
  • @astrinus Would you be able to print an output of this code? – 3kstc May 01 '18 at 10:58