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From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Underlining a whole paragraph
Keywords: LaTeX, underlining, help, HELP
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Date: 5 Mar 91 20:46:03 GMT
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In article <1991Mar5.065740.27490@leland.Stanford.EDU> rsingh@elaine17.stanford.edu (Rajesh Kumar Singh) writes:
* 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. 
* ----  ----  ---- 
* 
I don't think this is LaTeX specific problem I tried to do the same 
with Plain TeX without success either. So I would like a Plain TeX
solution also. [I remember I tried \underline in math mode and it 
did not work. underbar in text mode does not work.]
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