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From: sean@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Sean Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: looking for \everyline facilities
Keywords: everyline, paragraph hacks
Message-ID: <2718@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Aug 90 11:44:50 GMT
Reply-To: sean@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Sean Matthews)
Organization: The University of Edinburgh
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I have a tricky problem; I consider myself to be fairly good with
TeX, but I have not the slightest idea of how I would to do this.

What I want is a general facility for placing code at the
beginning, or end, of every line in a paragraph, in the same way
as I can place code at the beginning of every paragraph.

Two reasons for doing this are

1: for draft text, so that I can have (say) every fifth line
   labeled with its number (as in play scripts), so that I can
   indicate corrections and the like.

2: for some styles of quotation (not in English) there are
   running quotation marks down the side of the paragraph, as in

       `Statistics show that only 7.43 of 10 people who read this
       `manual actually  type the story.tex  file as recommended,
       `but that those people  learn TeX best.   So Why don't you
       `join them.'

Any ideas or example code welcome, posted or mailed

Sean