On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 05:14 pm, Georg Baum wrote:
> Does \vspace*{1cm} in ERT do what you want? Or do you want an empty space
> in the middle of a text row? Then try \hspace*{5cm}.
Many thanks for this tip from me, as well. I am a poet and novelist and the
various white spaces in the middle of lin
Thanks to all replies on this question. \underline{\hphantom{text}} is
precisely what I needed. I realize as well that I can \newcommand to
shorten this even further. As always, the LyX community comes through.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Thanks, all, for your replies. This didn't really help either. What did
help was reducing the length of all the lines to something a bit more
managable. The problem is, I think, that no matter how I specify it, the
lines are going to be a fixed length throughout. Some
Georg Baum wrote:
> > justified environment. What would really be great is if I had a command
> > to replace typed text with a line of the same length. e.g.
> > \hspace{\sizeof{theword}}. This command, of course, does not work. But
> > could there be something like it?
>
> Maybe (untested)
>
> \und
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> justified environment. What would really be great is if I had a command
> to replace typed text with a line of the same length. e.g.
> \hspace{\sizeof{theword}}. This command, of course, does not work. But
> could there be something like it?
Maybe (untested)
\underl
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> No, I am using \line because I want an horizontal line in the place of
> missing words. It's what a Word user would repeatedly hit the _ to do.
> \hspace just leaves an empty space, but has the same problem. Here's a
> sample output so you can see the ugliness that I
"Christopher M. Jones" wrote:
>
> What would really be great is if I had a command
> to replace typed text with a line of the same length. e.g.
> \hspace{\sizeof{theword}}. This command, of course, does not work. But
> could there be something like it?
normally \hfill{} would do it for me, but w
Thanks, all, for your replies. This didn't really help either. What did
help was reducing the length of all the lines to something a bit more
managable. The problem is, I think, that no matter how I specify it, the
lines are going to be a fixed length throughout. Sometimes this just
breaks things t
How about this
insert an ERT \hspace*{5cm}
select the inserted ERT
click Layout -> Character... -> Misc:
select Underbar
click OK.
you could replace the ERT with Protected Blanks as well if you prefer.
if you just want a line that goes all the way across the page, say under the
text for a signat
No, I am using \line because I want an horizontal line in the place of
missing words. It's what a Word user would repeatedly hit the _ to do.
\hspace just leaves an empty space, but has the same problem. Here's a
sample output so you can see the ugliness that I want to fix.
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 0
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone
> responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that
> what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification.
> If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then
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