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diff --git a/doc/user/bas_unde b/doc/user/bas_unde new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f7ea94 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/user/bas_unde @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +@Section + @Title { Underlining } + @Tag { underlining } +@Begin +@PP +The @Code "@Underline" symbol underlines the following object: +underline.sym @Index @Code "@Underline" +@ID @OneRow @Code { +"This little paragraph of text will have" +"@Underline { three underlined words } in it." +} +produces +@ID @OneRow 1.6i @Wide { +This little paragraph of text will have +@Underline { three underlined words } in it. +} +The underlining is continuous unless a line break intervenes. You +can't use this symbol to underline an arbitrary object: it is carefully +designed to produce high-quality underlining of single words and +parts of paragraphs, and it works only for those objects. +@PP +Each font contains information about how words in that font should be +underlined: how far below the baseline the line should be drawn, and how +thick. The @Code "@Underline" symbol uses this information; the font +it bases its underlining on is the font of the first object underlined +if it is a word, or else the font of the enclosing paragraph. +@End @Section |