I want to get the line similar to the one in PRL articles at the end. I don't want to use RevTex but can't figure out a simple way of doing it in Latex. Any help will be appreciated.
3 Answers
Here's an elementary, yet visually similar, approach:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{graphicx,lipsum}
\newcommand{\PRLsep}{\noindent\makebox[\linewidth]{\resizebox{0.3333\linewidth}{1pt}{$\bullet$}}\bigskip}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\PRLsep
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
\PRLsep
is a scaled/flattened version of $\bullet$
- 1/3 of \linewidth
wide and 1pt
tall.
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7If you use
\blacklozenge
fromamssymb
(or some black diamond shape, see symbols-a4.pdf) it looks even more alike. Aug 30, 2013 at 6:47 -
+1, this look much better than the original line in the published papers, which is a JPEG image. Aug 30, 2013 at 7:58
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I extended the example. Now, you can write a text between the seperator. But it is not perfect. The length measurement of \blacktriangleleft
gives 7.7778pt, but this includes the white space arround it. So this space is also stretched. The calc-Package is required.
\newlength{\PRLlen}
\newcommand*\PRLsep[1]{\settowidth{\PRLlen}{#1}\advance\PRLlen by -\textwidth\divide\PRLlen by -2\noindent\makebox[\the\PRLlen]{\resizebox{\the\PRLlen}{1pt}{$\blacktriangleleft$}}\raisebox{-.5ex}{#1}\makebox[\the\PRLlen]{\resizebox{\the\PRLlen}{1pt}{$\blacktriangleright$}}\bigskip}
\PRLsep{Text}
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With TikZ:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newlength{\diamondrulelength}
\setlength{\diamondrulelength}{0.6\textwidth}
\newlength{\diamondrulethickness}
\setlength{\diamondrulethickness}{2pt}
\newcommand{\diamondrule}{\begin{center}\tikz{\fill[black] (0.5\diamondrulelength,0) -- (0,0.5\diamondrulethickness) -- (-0.5\diamondrulelength,0) -- (0,-0.5\diamondrulethickness) -- cycle;}\end{center}}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\diamondrule
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
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1you can at least do it with some TikZ keys instead of blocking two more registers. Use
\centering
in a group instead center environment.– percusseMar 8, 2016 at 8:10 -