Thanks, all, for your replies. This didn't really help either. What did
help was reducing the length of all the lines to something a bit more
managable. The problem is, I think, that no matter how I specify it, the
lines are going to be a fixed length throughout. Sometimes this just
breaks things terribly, especially when there are two lines on a single
text row. The really smart thing to do would be to have a line that
adjusts with the requirements of word and character spacing in a
justified environment. What would really be great is if I had a command
to replace typed text with a line of the same length. e.g.
\hspace{\sizeof{theword}}. This command, of course, does not work. But
could there be something like it?
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:26 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote:
> How about this
> insert an ERT \hspace*{5cm}
> select the inserted ERT
> click Layout -> Character... -> Misc:
> select Underbar
> click OK.
>
> you could replace the ERT with Protected Blanks as well if you prefer.
>
> if you just want a line that goes all the way across the page, say under the
> text for a signature, you could put the text on a line and then do
> click Layout -> Paragraph...
> select the Line radio button in the Below pane.
>
> one may look better than the other for your purpose.
>
> "Christopher M. Jones" wrote:
> >
> > No, I am using \line because I want an horizontal line in the place of
> > missing words. It's what a Word user would repeatedly hit the _ to do.
> > \hspace just leaves an empty space, but has the same problem. Here's a
> > sample output so you can see the ugliness that I want to fix.
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:14 +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> > > Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone
> > > > responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that
> > > > what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification.
> > > > If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then please, someone let
> > > > me know where I can find the answer.
> > >
> > > Does \vspace*{1cm} in ERT do what you want? Or do you want an empty space
> > > in
> > > the middle of a text row? Then try \hspace*{5cm}.
> > >
> > >
> > > Georg
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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