Many thanks, Hans. That looks much better now.
Alan
On Jul 16, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 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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