Re: underbar and hyphenation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Jano Kula wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>   
>> anyhow, underbar is from the typewriter time and just a poor mans emphasis thing 
>>
>>     
>
> Not always. A year ago a graphic designer used it a quiet creative way 
> in the book of interviews. All the questions or persons were underlined, 
> often hyphenated. It was an experiment and it worked. By the way, some 
> of the caption and figure alingment Mojca asked for was used there also. 
> I've put few sample pages here (done in LaTeX):
>
> http://web.iol.cz/kula/sample.pdf (1,5MB).
>
> And in Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography (2000) underlined text 
> are used everywhere. To much to my taste.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/390704486X?v=glance
>
> So not for emphasis but as a graphic element it is -- and will be -- used.
>   
if one works on a grid, one can use the textbackground mechanism to provide underlined text honoring hyphenation (there is probably an example of that somewhere) 

maybe there's also some pdf primitive, in which case one can use the context feature mechanism

Hans 


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