\underbar not allowing line-breaking

\underbar not allowing line-breaking

[Duncan Hothersall]

A quick question: \underbar is demonstrated in the manual as allowing lines
to break normally (page 204). In my texts line breaks won't happen in an
underlined phrase, meaning that they stick out into the right hand margin.
Is this a known problem, or does it work for other people?

Thanks

Duncan
dh@capdm.com

RE: \underbar not allowing line-breaking

[Duncan Hothersall]

In answer to my own question, and possibly as a bug report: line breaking
within \underbar{...} is broken when used in conjunction with

\setupalign[{right,nothyphenated}]

Duncan

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>
>
> A quick question: \underbar is demonstrated in the manual as
> allowing lines
> to break normally (page 204). In my texts line breaks won't happen in an
> underlined phrase, meaning that they stick out into the right hand margin.
> Is this a known problem, or does it work for other people?
>
> Thanks
>
> Duncan
> dh@capdm.com

RE: \underbar not allowing line-breaking

[Hans Hagen]

At 15:03 31/07/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>In answer to my own question, and possibly as a bug report: line breaking
>within \underbar{...} is broken when used in conjunction with

it is not possible to do that with normal rules since they get attached 
under the word; you may give \underbars [plural] a try)

or the more obscure:

% output=pdftex

\starttext

\definetextbackground
   [underbared]
   [alternative=1,location=text,
    background=,frame=]

\def\underbared
   {\groupedcommand
      {\starttextbackground[underbared]}
      {\stoptextbackground}}


\underbared{\input tufte\relax}

\stoptext

typical an example for a MyWay document -)
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RE: \underbar not allowing line-breaking

[Duncan Hothersall]

Hans wrote:

> % output=pdftex
>
> \starttext
>
> \definetextbackground
>    [underbared]
>    [alternative=1,location=text,
>     background=,frame=]
>
> \def\underbared
>    {\groupedcommand
>       {\starttextbackground[underbared]}
>       {\stoptextbackground}}
>
>
> \underbared{\input tufte\relax}
>
> \stoptext
>
> typical an example for a MyWay document -)

Thanks! I've been looking through core-pos to try to understand how I can
change the look of this. I can set the colour of the line with framecolor,
but I can't seem to adjust the offset. The default appears to be overlay,
but this looks ugly as an underline, as it obscures the baseline of the
text. I have tried offset=, frameoffset= and backgroundoffset=, but no
change occurs.

Then I also tried getting rid of the alternative=1 (what does this do?) and
putting frame=off,bottomframe=on, but this produced no output at all.

Is there a way to do it?

Also, when a line break occurs the underlining stretches out to the right
further than the end of the line - is there any way to stop this happening?

Thanks

Duncan
dh@capdm.com

RE: \underbar not allowing line-breaking

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:51 13/08/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hans wrote:
>
> > % output=pdftex
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > \definetextbackground
> >    [underbared]
> >    [alternative=1,location=text,
> >     background=,frame=]
> >
> > \def\underbared
> >    {\groupedcommand
> >       {\starttextbackground[underbared]}
> >       {\stoptextbackground}}
> >
> >
> > \underbared{\input tufte\relax}
> >
> > \stoptext
> >
> > typical an example for a MyWay document -)
>
>Thanks! I've been looking through core-pos to try to understand how I can
>change the look of this. I can set the colour of the line with framecolor,
>but I can't seem to adjust the offset. The default appears to be overlay,
>but this looks ugly as an underline, as it obscures the baseline of the
>text. I have tried offset=, frameoffset= and backgroundoffset=, but no
>change occurs.
>
>Then I also tried getting rid of the alternative=1 (what does this do?) and
>putting frame=off,bottomframe=on, but this produced no output at all.
>
>Is there a way to do it?

you can redefine the metapost graphic, the main thing there is that you 
draw/fill something related to the multipar paths; it takes a bit of 
experimenting, but after a while you start seeing possibilities. See 
plus-rul.tex for an example of such a graphic.

Hans
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