diff --git a/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/META-INF/catalog.xml b/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/META-INF/catalog.xml
index cb3cf59f9..09d20309e 100644
--- a/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/META-INF/catalog.xml
+++ b/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/META-INF/catalog.xml
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
 
   <!-- internal resources added to the catalog for now until we find a proper solution for
        https://github.com/daisy/pipeline-mod-braille/pull/79#discussion-diff-54276962 -->
-  <uri name="http://www.sbs.ch/pipeline/modules/braille/internal/handle-precedingseparator.xsl"
-       uri="../xml/handle-precedingseparator.xsl"/>
   <uri name="http://www.sbs.ch/pipeline/modules/braille/internal/group-starting-with-linenum.xsl"
        uri="../xml/group-starting-with-linenum.xsl"/>
   <uri name="http://www.sbs.ch/pipeline/modules/braille/internal/insert-boilerplate.xsl"
diff --git a/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/css/default.scss b/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/css/default.scss
index 8c759afd9..f992f3036 100644
--- a/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/css/default.scss
+++ b/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/css/default.scss
@@ -612,6 +612,21 @@ p {
     margin-top:1;
 }
 
+p.precedingseparator {
+    $separator-width: 6;
+    text-indent: 0;
+    &::before {
+        content: "\A"                                            /* empty line */
+                 repeat(" ", ($page-width - $separator-width)/2) /* centering */
+                 repeat("⠒", $separator-width) "\A"              /* separator */
+                 "\A"                                            /* empty line */
+                 "  ";                                           /* text indent */
+        white-space: pre-line;
+        text-transform: none;
+        hyphens: initial;
+    }
+}
+
 .noindent {
     display: block;
     text-indent: 0;
diff --git a/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/xml/dtbook-to-pef.xpl b/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/xml/dtbook-to-pef.xpl
index 8c757591c..2c8e5ba2b 100644
--- a/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/xml/dtbook-to-pef.xpl
+++ b/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/xml/dtbook-to-pef.xpl
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@
             <p:pipe step="temp-dir" port="result"/>
         </p:with-option>
         <p:with-option name="stylesheet" select="string-join((
-                                                 'http://www.sbs.ch/pipeline/modules/braille/internal/handle-precedingseparator.xsl',
                                                  'http://www.sbs.ch/pipeline/modules/braille/internal/group-starting-with-linenum.xsl',
                                                  'http://www.sbs.ch/pipeline/modules/braille/internal/insert-boilerplate.xsl',
                                                  $stylesheet),' ')"/>
diff --git a/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/xml/handle-precedingseparator.xsl b/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/xml/handle-precedingseparator.xsl
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c69100c3..000000000
--- a/modules/sbs/braille/src/main/resources/xml/handle-precedingseparator.xsl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
-                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
-                xmlns:dtb="http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/dtbook/"
-                exclude-result-prefixes="#all">
-  
-  <xsl:template match="dtb:*[@class/tokenize(.,'\s+')='precedingseparator']">
-    <dtb:div style="display: block;
-                    text-align: center;
-                    margin-top: 1;
-                    margin-bottom: 1;
-                    text-transform: none;
-                    hyphens: initial">
-      ⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒
-    </dtb:div>
-    <xsl:next-match/>
-  </xsl:template>
-  
-  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
-    <xsl:copy>
-      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
-    </xsl:copy>
-  </xsl:template>
-  
-</xsl:stylesheet>