From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Bowen Alan C." <acbowen@Princeton.edu>
Subject: Re: meta post query (MK2) re underlining
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:29:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C40C124.5050106@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D9BF2C3A-17EC-4647-B580-115BEAB597AB@Princeton.edu>
On 16-7-2010 5:00, Bowen Alan C. wrote:
> I have been using
>
> \definetextbackground[underline] [location=text,alternative=1,background=,frame=off]
>
> for underlining in my documents and
>
> \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset}
> \iftracepositions show_multi_pars \else draw_multi_pars \fi ;
> path p ; p := boundingbox currentpicture ;
> currentpicture := currentpicture shifted (0,-StrutDepth/2) ;
> setbounds currentpicture to p ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> to control the depth of the underlining.
>
> Unfortunately, this underlining is still sometimes too far beneath the word underlined. I had thought the problem is the -StrutDepth/2. But even if I change it to an absolute value, the underlines to not appear at the same distance even when the word.
>
> Try this test file:
>
> \definetextbackground[underline] [location=text,alternative=1,background=,frame=off]
>
> \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset}
> \iftracepositions show_multi_pars \else draw_multi_pars \fi ;
> path p ; p := boundingbox currentpicture ;
> currentpicture := currentpicture shifted (0,-.50) ;
> setbounds currentpicture to p ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \starttext
>
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
> Donec \startunderline{gravida}\stopunderline{} posuere arcu.
>
> \stoptext
>
> What I need is underlining that occurs at a fixed/constant distance below the words underlined (allowing for descenders, of course, when they are present).
>
> Any suggestions?
just use \underbar(s)
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2010-07-16 15:00 Bowen Alan C.
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