For AI agents: the complete documentation index is available at https://lazygophers.github.io/pamphlet/en/llms.txt, the full documentation bundle is available at https://lazygophers.github.io/pamphlet/en/llms-full.txt, and this page is available as Markdown at https://lazygophers.github.io/pamphlet/en/write/blocks/rule.md.

Thematic breaks

What it is

A line across the page that cuts content into two unrelated parts.

How to write it

Three or more -, * or _ alone on a line:

---

What comes out

An <hr>, coloured with the theme's --pf-border.

The fiction theme replaces it with three centred dots — the scene separator used in novels, not a line.

Traps

Warning

--- at the very top is frontmatter The pair of --- at the very beginning of a source file delimits configuration (see the frontmatter reference), not a rule. To open a document with one, use ***.

  • Leave blank lines around it, or --- turns the line above into a level-2 heading (Markdown's other heading syntax)
  • Using it to "add space" is misuse: sections want headings