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From: adrian@mti.mti.com (Adrian McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: help requested on underlining with line breaks.
Message-ID: <911@mti.mti.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 17:23:07 GMT
References: <5560.25d9e051@elroy.uh.edu> <22555@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: adrian@mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy)
Organization: Micro Technology, Anaheim, CA
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In article <22555@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <5560.25d9e051@elroy.uh.edu> bchs1a@elroy.uh.edu writes:
>>When using \underline ... to underline text in a paragraph, namely
>>book titles ....
>
>Gaaak!  ( :-) )
>
>One underlines book titles in typewritten text only because most
>typewriters are not capable of typing in italics.  Typeset text should
>use italics wherever typewriters use underlining.

As Knuth points out in the TeXbook, more and more typesetters are using
a slant font instead of italics.

But there are still cases where underlining might be desirable, so the
quick and easy work around would be to break the words up into separate
\underline macros:

  \underline{The} \underline{Title} \underline{of} \underline{My}
  \underline{Book}

This points out a small problem with \underline, though.  The line under
"My" will be lower than the other words since the line is placed relative
to the depth of the box.  Since "y" has a descender, the "My" box will
be deeper.  Perhaps there is a way to use a strut to force all \underline
boxes to the same depth.

Aid.