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diff --git a/doc/user/bas_unde b/doc/user/bas_unde index 9f7ea94..57bcc8a 100644 --- a/doc/user/bas_unde +++ b/doc/user/bas_unde @@ -24,4 +24,32 @@ 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. +@PP +The underline produced by @Code "@Underline" will have the same colour +as whatever is being underlined. If you want a different colour, you need +the @Code "@ColouredUnderline" or equivalently @Code "@ColoredUnderline" +symbol, which takes a colour on the left as well as the thing to be +underlined on the right: +@ID @OneRow @Code { +"This little paragraph of text will have" +"blue @ColouredUnderline { three underlined words } in it." +} +produces +@ID @OneRow 1.6i @Wide { +This little paragraph of text will have +blue @ColouredUnderline { three underlined words } in it. +} +The colours available are as for the @Code "@Colour" symbol from +Section {@NumberOf colour}. +@PP +There is no way to set a default value for the colour of a coloured +underline, but you can make it easy to get an underline of a specific +colour, by placing a definition at the start of your document, like this: +@ID @OneRow @Code @Verbatim { +import @BasicSetup +def @MustCheck right x { blue @ColouredUnderline x } +} +This allows you to type @Code "@MustCheck" instead of +{@Code "blue @ColouredUnderline"}. Definitions are explained in +general in Section {@NumberOf definitions}. @End @Section |