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At 12:42 PM 7/18/2002 +0900, Matthew Huggett wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I'm teaching English to some young Japanese kids and I need to make some
>writing paper for worksheets.
>I need the type of paper with a broken (dashed) line between two solid
>lines.  I have managed to create this with the following TeX code:
>
>\define\BigWritingLines{% writing lines for young kids
>\thinrule
>\vskip 7pt
>\type{----------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----------}
>\vskip 3pt
>\thinrule
>}
>
>This works for me, but there must be a more elegant way of making the dashed
>line.  I'd like to make it so that I don't have to guess how many dashes I
>need to fill the line but not break it.
>
>I've attached a PDF so you can see what I'm after.

\starttext

\showframe

\def\dashfill
   {\hskip-.25em
    \cleaders
      \hbox to .5em
        {\hss
         \vrule
            depth .5pt
            height.5pt
            width .25em}
      \hfill}

\hbox to \hsize{\strut \dashfill}
\hbox to \hsize{\strut \inleftmargin{monday}\dashfill}

\stoptext
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