Where can I find vignettes to separate sections?

Question

In traditional typesetting for books, there are often little figures called vignettes that serve as a separation between sections or subsections.

One could always include the graphics as in a figure/vector, draw it with tikz-pgf or even work a font, but I am wondering if there is any package that provides good integration with (hopefully pretty) vignettes.

If not, a good collection and instructions to put them automatically at the end of a section will be much appreciated.

Edit: Summary of answers: there is no package or way to doing that automatically, at least not touching only the preamble. The best way is to create a macro to insert the ornament and calling it wherever is needed.

Answer 1

• You could use an ornament font such as adforn, webomint, fourier or pifont, which have been mentioned here: Free ornaments font.

• Regarding integration, have a look at

  • End of paragraph with ornament
  • Paragraph breaks with asterisks

  You could adjust the solutions there for separating sections or subsections as well.

Answer 2

These are called ornaments. You can define an environment and use them automatically as follows:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fourier}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\newenvironment{Section}[1]
{\section{#1}}
{\vspace{12pt}\centering ------- \decofourleft\decofourright ------- \par}

\begin{Section}{Test}
\lipsum[1]
\end{Section}

\end{document}

Answer 3

After looking to Jiannis and Stefan answers I just decided that the best option is to do it manually with some macros. I post my "solution" to help others:

% Nice ending for sections and subsections

\newcommand*\myhrulefill{%
   \leavevmode\leaders\hrule depth-2pt height 2.4pt\hfill\kern0pt}

\newcommand\niceending[1]{%
  \begin{center}%
    \LARGE \myhrulefill \hspace{0.2cm} #1 \hspace{0.2cm} \myhrulefill%
  \end{center}}

\newcommand*\nicesectionending{\niceending{\aldineright\aldineleft}}
\newcommand*\nicesubsectionending{\niceending{\aldinesmall}}

After this is defined, I just use \nicesectionending or \nicesubsectionending wherever I want. It is not as good as done automatically but as Yiannis said, it will be more typing and very easy to mess up the code.