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From: wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (Georg Wittig)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Underlining a whole paragraph
Keywords: LaTeX, underlining, help, HELP
Message-ID: <4239@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 6 Mar 91 12:52:08 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.065740.27490@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: GMD - The German National Research Center for Computer Science
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rsingh@elaine17.stanford.edu (Rajesh Kumar Singh) writes:

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

>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.



This one was in comp.text.tex some time ago.

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\documentstyle{article}

\def\underl#1 {\leavevmode\let\first=\relax\underli #1 }
\def\underli#1 {\ifx&#1\let\next=\relax\unskip
                \else\let\next=\underli\first\ulinebox{#1}\fi\let\first=\undersp\next}
\def\undersp{\penalty50\ulinebox{\space}\penalty50}
\def\ulinebox#1{\vtop{\hbox{\strut#1}\hrule}}%Taken from TexHax v.88, 52


\begin{document}
\underl now is the time for all now is the time for all good men to now is the time now is the nownownow now iw is fhgdkhfd dfygdfg fkudshf &
\end{document}

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