Definition
Scene break
A scene break is a visual pause inside a chapter — marked in manuscripts as *** or a blank-line gap, and typeset as white space or an ornament (❦, ⁂, · · ·) with the next paragraph unindented.
Fiction's unit between paragraph and chapter. Manuscript convention marks it with a centered *** or # so it survives page turns; typesetting replaces the marker with the design's separator. The paragraph after a scene break traditionally begins flush left (no indent), same as a chapter opening.
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Front matter, chapter openers and scene breaks, set for you
Ceeryo generates the half-title, title and copyright pages, opens chapters on the right-hand page with the running head suppressed, and turns your blank lines and '* * *' into scene breaks — from the manuscript as you wrote it.