[comp.text.tex] Revision Bar in Latex

ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/16/90)

Does anyone know how to make a revision bar in Latex? I found some
code to do it in TeX, but it doesn't work for Latex. The code for TeX
(from "TeX for the Impatient" by Paul Abrahams) is:

\line{\hskip -4pt\vrule\hfil\vbox{
This text has a revision bar to the left. }}

Page 205 of the Latex book informs us that you can't use \line in
Latex. Instead you must use \flushleft, \flushright or \center. I
tried using \flushleft, but nothing happened. 

Dale Gerdemann
University of Illinois, Dept of Linguistics
Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute
dale@lees.cogsci.uiuc.edu
d-gerdemann@uiuc.edu

dorai@egeria.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram) (10/16/90)

In article <139600007@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
+Does anyone know how to make a revision bar in Latex? I found some
+code to do it in TeX, but it doesn't work for Latex. The code for TeX
+(from "TeX for the Impatient" by Paul Abrahams) is:
+
+\line{\hskip -4pt\vrule\hfil\vbox{
+This text has a revision bar to the left. }}
+
+Page 205 of the Latex book informs us that you can't use \line in
+Latex. Instead you must use \flushleft, \flushright or \center. I
+tried using \flushleft, but nothing happened. 

Luckily, TeX's \centerline is not redefined in LaTeX, and hence, \line
can be resurrected by the expedient:

\def\lline#1{\centerline{#1\hfill}}