On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ed Sykes wrote: > Hi, > > Would someone be so kind to let me know how to make a short horizonal line > in LyX please? > something like: > First Name: ___________ > > Thanks, > Ed Sykes
One way of doing this is to insert a 1x1 table, specify the column width, and put a border on the bottom only. Or you could put both parts in a table. See attached. -- Les ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
#LyX 1.4.4 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 245 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard First name: \begin_inset Tabular <lyxtabular version="3" rows="1" columns="1"> <features> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" width="2in"> <row bottomline="true"> <cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" rightline="true" usebox="none"> \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset </cell> </row> </lyxtabular> \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard or you could put both parts in a table: \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Tabular <lyxtabular version="3" rows="1" columns="2"> <features> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" width="0"> <column alignment="center" valignment="top" width="2in"> <row bottomline="true"> <cell multicolumn="1" alignment="center" valignment="top" usebox="none"> \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard First name: \end_layout \end_inset </cell> <cell alignment="center" valignment="top" topline="true" leftline="true" rightline="true" usebox="none"> \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset </cell> </row> </lyxtabular> \end_inset \end_layout \end_body \end_document
