Conference vaxuum::document_ft

271.0. "Underlined text runs off right edge of page" by COOKIE::WITHERS (Le plus ca change...) Fri Apr 17 1987 13:21

Problem:

<UNDERLINE> causes text to run off the edge of a page.  This makes it very
difficult to underline items such as long titles of books, articles, etc.
This is extremely antisocial behaviour.

nb:  Yes, I know that the documentation says it works this way.
Regardless of whether its documented or not, this is rather
un(-user-)friendly.



$ ty underline-bug.gnc
<HEAD1>(Underlining causes lines to run off of the end of the page/line)

<P>

When using the UNDERLINE tag with a long text <underline>(the text that is
being underlined runs off the right edge of the page).  Rose Johnston
conjectures that this is due to treating spaces in underlined
text as soft spaces.  The problem with this is that long titles seem to
get lost in MEMOs.
$ 
$ document underline-bug memo mail
%DOC-I-IDENT, VAX DOCUMENT T1.0-001
[ T a g   T r a n s l a t i o n ]...
%TAG-I-TAG_IDENT, T1.0
%TAG-I-DEFSLOADD, End of Loading of Tag Definitions
%TAG-I-ENDPASS_1, End of first pass over the input
%TAG-I-CPU_USAGE, Pass 1: 7.5  Pass 2: 1.1  Total: 8.6 seconds
[ T e x t   F o r m a t t i n g ]...
%TEX-I-IDENT, T1.1
%TEX-W-LINETOOLONG, line too long by 105.65479 points
%TEX-I-ONPAGE, on page [1]
%TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'disk$csse_disk:[withers.doc_wierdnesses]UNDERLINE-BUG.DVI_LPR'
%TEX-I-PAGESOUT, 1 page written.
%TEX-I-OUTFILENAME, 'disk$csse_disk:[withers.doc_wierdnesses]UNDERLINE-BUG.DVI_LPR'
[ D e v i c e   C o n v e r s i o n ]...
%DVC-I-PROGVERS, DVC$LPR T1.0
%DVC-I-PAGESOUT, 1 page written./
%DVC-I-FILENAME, 'DISK$CSSE_DISK:[WITHERS.DOC_WIERDNESSES]UNDERLINE-BUG.DVI_LPR'
$ 
$ type underline-bug.txt
           1  Underlining causes lines to run off of the end of the
              page/line

           When using the UNDERLINE tag with a long text
           the_text_that_is_being_underlined_runs_off_the_right_edge_of_the_page.
           Rose Johnston conjectures that this is due to treating
           spaces in underlined text as soft spaces. The prob-
           lem with this is that long titles seem to get lost in
           MEMOs.

    Just curious....can you use a <LINE> tag to force a line break within
    a heading?   
    
    	-hkc

As a workaround, you could code each word with an <UNDERLINE> tag:

<underline>(the) <underline>(text) <underline>(that) <underline>(is)...

--Brian