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From: dorai@egeria.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram)
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Subject: Re: Revision Bar in Latex
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Date: 16 Oct 90 16:04:37 GMT
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In article <139600007@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ddgg0881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
+Does anyone know how to make a revision bar in Latex? I found some
+code to do it in TeX, but it doesn't work for Latex. The code for TeX
+(from "TeX for the Impatient" by Paul Abrahams) is:
+
+\line{\hskip -4pt\vrule\hfil\vbox{
+This text has a revision bar to the left. }}
+
+Page 205 of the Latex book informs us that you can't use \line in
+Latex. Instead you must use \flushleft, \flushright or \center. I
+tried using \flushleft, but nothing happened. 

Luckily, TeX's \centerline is not redefined in LaTeX, and hence, \line
can be resurrected by the expedient:

\def\lline#1{\centerline{#1\hfill}}