On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:45:26AM +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote: > It's often desirable to have part of a line of text > left-aligned and part right-aligned. This is common > in the contents and index pages of books. When we > have tables there will be a table-abuse way to do this > but is there a way now? Perhaps with some kind of > special tab?
I've always wondered what the correct way to do that in a word processor (or LaTeX, for that matter) would be. > An enhancement of the above also in contents pages of > magazines and books is to fill the intervening space > between the left and right with a line of period > characters. Does any word processor support this? > It would be very useful. Tab leaders (which were my first Abi patch) allow that for tabs. Edit a tab's properties and you'll see that you can choose what character gets drawn in the interior of the tab. pat
