grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (01/15/91)
Actually, some one mailed me the underline code. A little hacking
produces the following example. The original code was a little liberal
with spaces in the code, which produces an extra space after each word
in the underlined region. This version corrects that and gives a
single underlined space between words.
\documentstyle{article}
\def\underl#1 {\leavevmode\let\first=\relax\underli #1 }
\def\underli#1 {\ifx\let\next=\relax\unskip
\else\let\next=\underli\first\ulinebox{#1}\fi\let\first=\undersp\next}
\def\undersp{\penalty50\ulinebox{\space}\penalty50}
\def\ulinebox#1{\vtop{\hbox{\strut#1}\hrule}}%Taken from TexHax v.88, 52
\begin{document}
\underl now is the time for all now is the time for all good men to now is the time now is the nownownow now iw is fhgdkhfd dfygdfg fkudshf &
\end{document}Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) (01/15/91)
From: Dirk Grunwald <grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu> Message-Id: <1991Jan14.235759.5765@csn.org> > Actually, some one mailed me the underline code. A little hacking > produces the following example [deleted]. The original code was a > little liberal with spaces in the code, which produces an extra space > after each word in the underlined region. > This version corrects that and gives a single underlined space between > words. But the "space" it gives is (a) rigid (defeating right-justification) and (b) doesn't dissappear at the margin. I think you could usefully replace the \ulinebox{\space} with \leaders\somesortofunderlinedbox\hskip\spaceskiporsimilar. Also, the line this code produces is too low -- it looks silly and makes the lines taller. Having the underscore cutting through the descenders seems to look better to me. Better still either use a special pre-underlined font or DON'T USE UNDERLINING AT ALL (I can't think of a good reason for it except in legal documents when pedantry requires it). //- Damian Cugley ----\ /--- Oxford University Computing Laboratory, -\ || pdc@prg.ox.ac.uk || \--- 11 Keble Rd, Oxford, UK OX1 3QD --------/ || pdc@uk.ac.ox.prg || \--------------------// "His feet are the wrong size for his shoes."