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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-underline.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-underline.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f3d4e83a58d --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-underline.html @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label underline</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Underlined text won’t break</h3> +<p/>Knuth made no provision for underlining text: he took the view that +underlining is not a typesetting operation, but rather one that +provides emphasis on typewriters, which typically offer but one +typeface. The corresponding technique in typeset text is to switch +from upright to italic text (or vice-versa): the LaTeX command +<code>\</code><code>emph</code> does just that to its argument. +<p/>Nevertheless, typographically illiterate people (such as those that +specify double-spaced +<a href="FAQ-linespace.html">thesis styles</a>) +continue to require underlining of us, so LaTeX as distributed +defines an <code>\</code><code>underline</code> command that applies the mathematical +‘underbar’ operation to text. This technique is not entirely +satisfactory, however: the text gets stuck into a box, and won’t break +at line end. +<p/>Two packages are available that solve this problem. The +<i>ulem</i> package redefines the +<code>\</code><code>emph</code> command to underline its argument; the underlined text thus +produced behaves as ordinary emphasised text, and will break over the +end of a line. (The package is capable of other peculiar effects, +too: read its documentation, contained within the file itself.) +The <i>soul</i> package defines an <code>\</code><code>ul</code> command (after which the +package is, in part, named) that underlines running text. +<p/>Beware of <i>ulem</i>’s default behaviour, which is to convert the +<code>\</code><code>emph</code> command into an underlining command; this can be avoided by +loading the package with: +<pre> + \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} +</pre> +Documentation of <i>ulem</i> is in the package itself. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>ulem.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/ulem.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/ulem.sty</a> +<dt><tt><i>soul.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/soul.zip">macros/latex/contrib/soul</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/soul.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/soul/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=underline">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=underline</a> +</body> |