[Tex/LaTex] find vignettes to separate sections

sectioningsymbols

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.

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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.

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The actual command, including its formal definition posted by @JoshLee is contained in the LaTeX 2e source, section 61.2 Sectioning (p 283). It forms part of ltsect.dtx, the bundle containing all sectioning commands for LaTeX. It even includes a pseudo-code interpretation of the actual macro. Here is an extract:

The \@startsection{<name>}{<level>}{<indent>}{<beforeskip>}{<afterskip>}{<style>}*[<altheading>]{<heading>} command is the mother of all the user level sectioning commands. The part after the *, including the * is optional.

name: e.g., subsection

level: a number, denoting depth of section - e.g., chapter = 0, section = 1, etc.

indent: Indentation of heading from left margin

beforeskip: Absolute value = skip to leave above the heading. If negative, then paragraph indent of text following heading is suppressed.

afterskip: If positive, then skip to leave below heading, else negative of skip to leave to right of run-in heading.

style: Commands to set style. Since June 1996 release the last command in this argument may be a command such as \MakeUppercase or \fbox that takes an argument. The section heading will be supplied as the argument to this command. So setting #6 to, say, \bfseries\MakeUppercase would produce bold, uppercase headings.

If * is missing, then increment the counter. If it is present, then there should be no [<altheading>] argument. The command uses the counter secnumdepth. It contains a pointer to the highest section level that is to be numbered.

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The package fontawesome provides a lot of useful symbols:

% arara: lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\begin{document}
\faOff
\end{document}

output

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