This package for the SILE typesetting system provides a few “couyards”, a.k.a. “culs-de-lampe” or, simply, “pendants”.

Typographers of the past relied on a number of ornaments to make their books look nicer.

A cul-de-lampe (plural culs-de-lampe) is a typographic ornament, sometimes called a pendant, marking the end of a section of text. The term comes from French, for “bottom of the lamp” (from the historical shape of the ornament). In French typography, they are also called couillards or couyards (apparently named, erm… after a body part, really). It may be a single illustration, often assembled from “fleurons”.

The present package defines a few such ornaments, that book authors might possibly find interesting to improve the look of their documents, without having to rely on single-character fleurons provided in fonts. They come as SVG files, and a simple package for easily inserting them with appropriate options.

Note that I am not the designer of the original artworks. The first seven designs were converted to SVG from drawings by Tartila, free for personal and commercial usage with proper attribution. Number 8 and 9 are in the public domain (CC0), from FreeSVG.

This package require SILE v0.14 or upper.

Installation relies on the luarocks package manager.

To install the latest version, you may use the provided “rockspec”:

luarocks install couyards.sile

(Refer to the SILE manual for more detailed 3rd-party package installation information.)

Examples are provided in the examples folder.

The in-code package documentation may also be useful. A readable version of the documentation is included in the User Manual for the resilient.sile collection of classes and packages.

All SILE-related code and samples in this repository are released under the MIT License, (c) 2021-2022 Omikhleia.