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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: underlining large blocks of text for submittable manuscript
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Date: 10 Jul 90 03:59:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: graham@max.physics.sunysb.edu's message of 10 Jul 90 01:19:54 GMT


I asked about this a while ago. Too bad I didn't look in my bag of toys.

%% Usage is
%% \underl <underlined text> &
%% The space before "&" is important.

\def\underl#1 {\leavevmode\underli #1 }
\def\underli#1 {\ifx&#1\let\next=\relax\unskip
                \else\let\next=\underli \ulinebox{#1} \fi\next}
\def\ulinebox#1{\vtop{\hbox{\strut#1 }\hrule}}%Taken from TexHax v.88, 52