Re: drawing requests following the line

[Deri]

On Thursday, 5 September 2024 21:33:44 BST Peter Schaffter wrote:
> 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.

Hi Peter,

There is a way for -Tpdf, I just have not written it yet! When I do, you get 
text hi-light, score through, and squiggly line as a bonus, they are all 
related.

Cheers

Deri

> 
> 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.