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I'd like to use an asterism to separate groups of paragraphs from one-another. The asterism shall appear in a line on its own, like in this document. Can anybody tell me where I can find an asterism symbol (is there a macro that makes one from the asterisk symbol from the font you're using?) and how to use it as a separator as described above?

I'm using LaTeX with the scrartcl document class.

FUZxxl
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Here are three different ways, accorrding to rthe number of asterisks and their layout:

 \documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{heuristica}
\usepackage{lipsum} 

\newcommand{\triast}{\bigskip\par\noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering\large{*}\\[-4pt]{*}\hskip 0.75em{*}}\bigskip\par}%
\newcommand{\threeast}{\bigskip\par\centerline{*\,*\,*}\medskip\par}%
\newcommand{\oneast}{\bigskip\par{\large\centerline{*\medskip}}\par}%

\begin{document}
\lipsum[3]
\oneast
\lipsum[3]
\triast
\lipsum[3]
\threeast
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

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Bernard
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  • Thank you. I combined your code with the asterisk macro from the answer @Hackbard_C linked. I wonder if the koma script provides a semantic command for this kind of subdivision... – FUZxxl Aug 05 '14 at 13:28
  • I don't use koma script, but conceptually, it could be a \paragraph*. – Bernard Aug 05 '14 at 13:30