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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: WriteNow (underline option)
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Date: 27 Nov 90 20:34:00 GMT
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Actually, most postscript fonts include underline characters, and many
word processors use overstrikes to accomplish underlining.  This has
the benefit of providing different-thickness underlines for
different-thickness fonts.

It has the disadvantage of underlining some characters with heavy
strokes, and others with light strokes, when different font facs (i.e.
normal & italic) are mixed and underline on the same line.

	F O R    e x a m p l e
	=====    -------------

This kind of underlining would occur if "FOR" were in a bold face, and
"example" were in a light face.

Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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