Re: drawing requests following the line

[Peter Schaffter]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2024, Deri wrote:
> I believe the mom macro set has an UNDERLINE macro see:-
> 
> https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/goodies.html#underline
> 
> Note that it can only be used by -Tps (not -Tpdf). I think it is using a 
> postscript snippet from Tadziu.

Correct on both counts.

Note that mom has two macros: UNDERLINE and UNDERSCORE.

UNDERLINE underlines multi-line passages and is the solution to
there being no meaningful .cu available for PostScript or PDF
output.  (Should we raise this issue again?  Nothing ever seems to
get done no matter how much we discuss it.)  The -Tps limitation is
a drag, but I don't think there's any way to implement something
similar for -Tpdf.

UNDERSCORE exists because one rarely wants underlined passages in
typeset copy anyway.  At most, one wants to underscore a title,
a heading, or a few words of text.  UNDERSCORE uses \D'l ...',
which does not span lines, a limitation mitigated by there being no
restriction on the chosen output device.

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Peter Schaffter
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