At 02:30 06/01/2011 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 00:13, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
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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 gotten
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.
The idea is that each line is actually a separate paragraph
consisting simply of a tab character, skipping to the right
margin. And it happens that if you apply the character property
Underline to such paragraphs, the otherwise empty lines are indeed
underlined. You then need to type any text at the beginning of such
lines - before the tab character. A single line then becomes a
paragraph of underlined text with the tab character at its end, and
this carries the underlining to the end of the line. If the text
wraps to more than one line, the underlining is continued, with the
small problem that - in the case of unjustified text - any unused
part of the line will not be underlined. As I mentioned, you can
solve this, but only by the messy technique of putting tab characters
back at the end of each line - after you have finalised your text, of course.
You may think that you can do the same sort of thing using space
characters instead of a single tab character. That appears to work
until you type your text: then any trailing spaces cease to be
underlined, so the idea fails.
Brian Barker
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