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- From: yc@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Yaw-Huei Chen)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Help wanted: underline long text
- Message-ID: <37912@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 13:49:32 GMT
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- Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.
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- Hi,
-
- I want to underline a portion of text in a paragraph. Since the
- LaTeX command \underline{text} puts the text in an hbox, this
- won't work for long text. I know a trick to get around the problem.
- For example, \underbar{this}\underbar{\ }\underbar{\will}\underbar{\ }%
- \underbar{do}\underbar{\ }\underbar{the}\underbar{\ }\underbar{job}.
- However, this is very cumbersome. Knuth wrote in the TeXbook ``If
- you really want underlined text, it's best to have a special font in
- which all the letters are underlined'' (page 323). I think the command
- should be something like {\ul long text}. Could anyone tell me how to
- do it? Any other suggestions?
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Yaw-Huei Chen
- yc@snail.cis.ufl.edu
-
-