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From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: dashed or dotted lines in tables
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:16:38 +0100
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> I meant drawing the normal horizontal and vertical rules that
> separate rows and columns dashed or dotted instead of continuous,
> but using TeX itself

Check in the TeXbook (I'm far O(10^4) km from my copy right now) about
leaders and \hrulefill, that might do it.

-Sanjoy

`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
         --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.