jim said:
style should be primarily up to the publishing house
my view on fonts is that the end-user picks the font. you are the end-user for our little experiment here, so pick your font. i will not be bothered otherwise...
Leave it out and use some extra vertical whitespace
i will not just "leave out" the asterisks, because they signal a scene-break in the original book, which is a very important piece of information that should be retained for anyone who wants to copy out this text. but i can turn them white, so they become invisible, similar to what i did with the rules you wanted deleted.
It means that when I read this on my Kindle or in my web browser it is so small and leaves so little visual impact compared to the surrounding text that it looks like a mistake.
whatever. i will make them invisible, in keeping with your suggestion to use some extra vertical whitespace. the new version is up, albeit with old-style asterisks... tell me if there's anything else, before i change it again. -bowerbird