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