Helge Hafting wrote: > You are thinking about a dialog providing <length> of <something> > Where <length> can be 1cm, 4pt, big, med, small, or fill, > and <something> can be space, dots, or rule? > > This certainly seems more useful. I'll have to read up on latex to > see if all the permutations are supported. I haven't heard of a > "5cm dotfill" but believe it can be done by putting a sized parbox > around the dotfill.
I don't think such a thing exists. I was merely thinking about \hfill. But as you say, it's probably easy to define a customizable dotfill. Jürgen