A couple of layout/style questions

I'm currently marking up "Through the Looking Glass", and I'm using an old
"dead-tree" copy, and a more recent annotated copy ("The Annotated Alice",
by Martin Gardner), to help me figure out what's what.

Query 4:
At a number of points, the hardcopy versions both contain the following,
used as a separator between sections within chapters:
      *       *       *       *       *       *       *

          *       *       *       *       *       *

      *       *       *       *       *       *       *
When this is converted to <para></para> elements in my xml markup, it
displays with collapsed white space, thus:
* * * * * * *
* * * * * *
* * * * * * *
Any suggestions as to how to treat this (preferably as an element for which
I can define a style which includes "center" as an attribute)?


and, to round off my current problems,

Query 5:
Both my hardcopy versions display some text in a smaller-than-usual font
size (it's dialog spoken by a small insect). Is the most sensible approach
to use the "misc" in-line element, and define a style for this? If not, what
other suggestions?

Rob

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