On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 00:13, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > At 22:33 02/01/2011 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> A user is making forms for herself and other therapists. These forms will >> be printed, and to specify the place where text is to be typed there are >> lines on the page, created with four dashes and one Enter per line. >> >> This works fine, but the original author wants to type out her forms for >> herself, instead of filling in the printed ones. she has no problem typing >> on the lines created with the dashes, but when the text wraps a line the top >> line loses its underline! > > That's not surprising, since what you have created is not an underline but a > paragraph border below each paragraph. And the text that wraps is one > continuos paragraph, of course - which gets a single border after it, not > after each line. >
I see, thanks. >> How can she prevent this from happening? Should she use a different type >> of line? > > Possibly. > > You could keep the original scheme, enter the text, and then go back, > putting the cursor at the end of each line in turn and pressing Enter. This > converts the passage into separate paragraphs, each of which will inherit > the style and be given a trailing border. > No! > Here's another suggestion: > o Put a left tab stop at the right margin (er, or perhaps right at the > left, depending on your locale!). > o Press Tab followed by Enter the required number of times. > o Select all the lines and go to Format | Character... | Font Effects | > Underlining (or right-click | Style > | Underline, or click the Underline > button in the Formatting toolbar). > o If the entered text is not justified, this will leave the space at the > end of each line not underlined. If this matters, you can add a Tab > character at the end of each line. > Thanks. Assuming Left to Right (it's not, as you properly guessed, but in the interest of a useful archive let's assume that it is) then what exactly is being accomplished here? I seem to have gotton lost after the second step, I must be putting the tabs in the wrong place, but if I understand what it is that you suggest then I may be able to cope. > There are probably neater methods ... > I hope so! Thanks, Brian. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
