Best Way to Produce This Chapter Divider Image

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I am currently working on a document into which I hope to incorporate this chapter divider:

QUESTION: Does LaTeX have an ornament that resembles this triangular group of asterisks, or must it be produced from scratch? If the latter is the case, then how may I "define" it so that I can easily call it into the document at various places?

Thank you.

To define your own hand-made version, see: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/160336/asterism-and-similar-breaking-non-breaking-options — Cicada, Jan 22 '22 at 09:20
@Cicada The answer given by Steven B. Segletes in the link you provided is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again. — DDS, Jan 22 '22 at 16:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '22 at 18:38

The memoir class (a superset of book, report and article) has a variety of methods for producing what I called anonymous divisions because they caused unnumbered and untitled breaks in the text.

% anondivprob.tex  SE 631043
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{pifont}
\newcommand{\sometext}{Just some random text to help fill things up
  without necessarily making any sense. }
\newcommand{\twice}{\sometext \sometext}
\renewcommand{\pfbreakdisplay}{{}\ {}\quad{}}  % triangle of s
\begin{document}
\twice
\fancybreak{\pfbreakdisplay}
\twice
\fancybreak{{}\{ * }\{}}
\twice And a bit more to make the last line longer.
\fancybreak{\ensuremath{\clubsuit\quad\diamondsuit\quad\clubsuit}}
\twice
\fancybreak{\ding{167}\quad\ding{167}\quad\ding{167}} % \ding from pifont package
\twice
\fancybreak{\pfbreakdisplay}
\twice
\end{document}

For more information read the manual (texdoc memoir) section 6.7 Fancy Anonymous Breaks. It's only a couple of pages but explains much that it is not possible in this answer. For example, that you can have a break just of a missing line or two in the middle of a page but if the break is at a page break then you can a textual/graphic indication that there is really an intended anonymous break there.

Thank you for this informative answer. It addresses some things which I was not aware of. Actually, a couple of people on this post have directed me to https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/160336/asterism-and-similar-breaking-non-breaking-options ; and contained therein, I found that the answer of Steven B. Segletes answered the question quite nicely. Thank you for your alternative approach, and for the addressing of other chapter dividers as well. — DDS, Jan 22 '22 at 19:33

gigiair · Answer 2 · 2022-01-22T09:39:14.753

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This char is unicode ASTERISM #x2042. You can type it from Linux Libertine in XeTeX

\documentclass[french]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
« savent bien la porter »
\begin{center}
  {\fontspec{Linux Libertine O}⁂}\par
\end{center}
Avant toute chose si on s'adressait à lui pour une guérison.
\end{document}

Edit

It is a lot of answers about asterism, for instance

Asterism and similar breaking / non-breaking options

edited Jan 22 '22 at 09:39

answered Jan 22 '22 at 08:43

gigiair

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Thank you for the link. It has also posted in one of the comments. In fact, the answer of Steven B. Segletes contained therein answers the question I posted entirely. Thanks again. – DDS Jan 22 '22 at 19:24

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