At 21:35 29/02/2008 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 29/02/2008, Michael Adams wrote:
Try six or so hyphens followed by the enter key (no spaces). To
ensure spacing between lines tap enter again. Repeat these steps as
needed. Autoconvert converts the hyphens to a line unless you have
turned it off.
Very, very nice, Michael! Thanks! I knew _just_knew_ that there had
to be a smart way of doing this, surely a dev sometime has needed
ruled lines. From where did you learn that? I'd love to find the
resource that lists tricks like that.
This technique is just a quick way of setting a bottom border for the
paragraph that you have just completed - an empty paragraph in your
case. In fact, if you need a number of lines ruled, it is actually a
*slowish* way of doing it. A faster way is either:
o first pressing Enter a number of times, selecting the area, and
then setting the border property for all the paragraphs in one go, or
o using the above technique once but then entering new empty
paragraphs *before* the bordered one you have produced. Doing it
this way means that each new paragraph inherits the border property
you have set, saving your repeating all those hyphens.
Where is this explained? It's all in the help text at "drawing lines
in text". ;^) You need only three characters, in fact (not six),
and you can obtain six different styles of border with this
technique, using three copies of any one of hyphen, underscore,
equals sign, asterisk, swung dash, or hash mark.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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