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Context breaks denote a break in the continuity of the narrative. It represents a shift in thought, time, location, or similar in a work of fiction or non-fiction. These changes are typically represented by a large blank space between paragraphs, which sometimes including asterisms and other decorations (traditionally when the shift occurs immediately at the bottom of a print page where it might not be apparent).
Often images are used to represent context breaks. Images are a suboptimal way to indicate a context change because they carry no semantic information.
For all context breaks, remove decorative image or content break and insert horizontal line.
Borders
Horizontal line
This will convert to the <hr class="transition"> tag in EPUB.
Here is a link to a video tutorial for Inserting Horizontal Lines in Word.
Types of context breaks ==== Q&A Archive ====
Q: If a book uses 2 different types of breaks, what should our approach be?
A: NNELS replaces all breaks with 3 asterisks.
Q: Truth & Honour is using extra spaces between paragraphs in place of decorative breaks. Should I still treat it as a normal decorative break?
A: Yes.