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From: rsingh@elaine17.stanford.edu (Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Underlining a whole paragraph
Summary: How to avoid the LR mode
Keywords: LaTeX, underlining, help, HELP
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.065740.27490@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 91 06:57:40 GMT
Sender: rsingh@portia.stanford.edu (Rajesh K Singh)
Organization: Stanford University - AIR
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Hello,

I know that underlining sucks :-) but this advisor of mine
absolutely wants to underline almost a paragraph of text in
article style.  What she wants is something like this.

blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  
----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  
blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  blah  
----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  ----  
blah  blah  blah. 
----  ----  ---- 

Even a continous underline is OK.  The trouble is that latex
typesets the WHOLE PARAGRAPH AS ONE SINGLE LINE. I looked
up in latex guide on pages 51 and 171 but it didn't help.

So far I have tried the following variations.

\begin{underline} Text to be underlined ... \end{underline}
\begin{underline} \parbox{\textwidth} Text to ... \end{underline}
\begin{underline} {Text to be underlined ...} \end{underline}
\underline{Text to be underlined ...}

None of it seems to work.  Thanks for any and all help.
--raj
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Rajesh Kumar Singh               E-mail: rsingh@portia.stanford.edu
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