Section (typography)

, showing an ornate section break on the lower left page created from asterisks. It is used to signal a pause for the reader and a transition in the narrative. In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter. In fiction, sections often represent scenes, and accordingly the space separating them is sometimes also called a scene break. Scene breaks represent gaps in story time that do not correspond to discourse time, and thus reveal the story-discourse distinction. In law, sections are divisions of legislation that may be deeply nested to as little as single sentences.

, showing an ornate section break on the lower left page created from asterisks. It is used to signal a pause for the reader and a transition in the narrative.]] In books and documents, a section is a subdivision, especially of a chapter. In fiction, sections often represent scenes, and accordingly the space separating them is sometimes also called a scene break. Scene breaks represent gaps in story time that do not correspond to discourse time, and thus reveal the story-discourse distinction. In law, sections are divisions of legislation that may be deeply nested to as little as single sentences. ==Section form and numbering== Some documents, especially legal documents, may have numbered sections, such as Section Two of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or Internal Revenue Code section 183. The symbol (section sign) prefixed to a number indicates that it is the number of a section detailed elsewhere. The dotted-decimal section-numbering scheme commonly used in scientific and technical documents is defined by International Standard ISO 2145. ==In HTML== The tag may be used in semantic HTML to mark part of a webpage as a section. The element originally represented a page-width horizontal rule, and now has the semantics of a "paragraph-level thematic break" which may be rendered in various ways. In the Wikipedia markup language, it is represented as four hyphens ---- on their own line and renders like this: previous section ---- following section ==See also== ( ) sometimes used to indicate a section break in literature (for example, ) ==References==

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