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- From: crs@castle.ed.ac.uk (C R Smart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Fill-in-the-blanks documents in Pagemaker 4.0?
- Keywords: PageMaker
- Message-ID: <24032@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 10:12:32 GMT
- References: <12333@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <13636@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng) writes:
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- >In article <12333@ecs.soton.ac.uk> lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr) writes:
- >>I've recently had to produce a little training manual
- >>where the students have to fill in missing words. To
- >>show where the missing words are, the actual text is replaced
- >>by a ruled line---you've all seen the kind of thing.
- >>
- >>I've been trying to work out the best way to do this in PageMaker
- >>(or anything, really!) since to paste in actual lines in the text
-
- >The easiest thing to do would be to set up tabs with leaders. Leaders are
- >characters that appear before the tab starting from the place where you hit
- >the tab key.
- >Hope that solves the problem!
-
- Using tabs and leaders will not then allow editing of the text in that
- a tab is at a fixed position with regard to the edge of the text
- block.
-
- An alternative solution might be to use an underline character "_" and
- increase the leading slightly to give the writer more space.
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