BTW, if you're not caught up in formalities and want a cheat, I've figured out a way to do the *** for section breaks. Just hit ENTER and insert ERT (click on the TeX) button and put the following command in it:
\makebox[\textwidth][c]{* * *}
Then make sure that paragraph is flush left and adjust the paragraph spacing as needed. E.g., add a bigskip before --
Layout->Paragraph->Vertical Space->bigskip
That won't create a logical section break, but you don't really need one for a novel becuase the section divided by a *** is not indexed and not reflected in the headers. Diehards may tell me I'm wrong, but remember I'm just an author armed with a little knowledge.
There may be other reasons for using a real section break though.
It seems to me that latex consider section breaks when breaking the
pages. A page break may happen inside some long paragraph or
between two paragraphs, it will _not_ happen between
a section header and the first paragraph in the section.
A simulated section header using bigger letters will suffer from this though.
So consider wether it is okay to get the " * * * " at the top
or bottom of a page.
Helge Hafting
