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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: <916@mti.mti.com>
Date: 22 Feb 90 19:00:35 GMT
References: <5560.25d9e051@elroy.uh.edu> <22555@mimsy.umd.edu> <911@mti.mti.com>
Reply-To: adrian@mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy)
Followup-To: comp.text.tex
Organization: Micro Technology, Anaheim, CA
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In article <911@mti.mti.com> adrian@mti.UUCP (I) write:
>  \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.

I was promptly chastised by dh for this gaff.  If I had my book here,
I would have seen the cross reference to \underbar in the index.  Check it
out if you're interested.  It explains that \underbar alters the depth of
the box rather than using a strut which won't work in some cases.

Followups to comp.text.tex.

Aid.