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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">By the way, here is the result:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Also amend the \vspace[3ex] to your liking depending on how large your handwriting may be. This is to adjust the vertical height provided for the fill in lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Hubert Lam
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 04, 2011 6:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Amber K'; texhax@tug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [texhax] TeX underline & \hfill question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Amber K,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Are you trying to create lines for people to handwrite/fill in (cloze)?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If so here’s my implementation.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">\documentclass{article}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">\usepackage{calc}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">\newcommand{\Cloze}[1]{\begin{minipage}[b]{\widthof{\Huge \textbf{#1}}} \vspace{</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">3</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">ex}
\dotfill \end{minipage}}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">% creates a minipage of the width of the required text which \dotfill can fill up
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">\begin{document}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">A \textbf{relation} is a \Cloze{rule} that maps \Cloze{elements} from the \Cloze{domain} to the \Cloze{range}.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">\end{document}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This will create dotted lines with variable length \dotfill s. The package calc does the magic in calculating the hspace required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hubert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:texhax-bounces@tug.org">texhax-bounces@tug.org</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:texhax-bounces@tug.org]">
[mailto:texhax-bounces@tug.org]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Amber K<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 04, 2011 5:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:support@tug.org">support@tug.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [texhax] TeX underline & \hfill question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I create lesson plans, I like to make handouts with lines that fill the page as well a solutions keys where I put text on the lines. I've been manually adjusting the widtch value in inches one line at a time until they line up, and
I'm really hoping there is an easier way. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Right now, if the handout looks like: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0"><span style="color:#0060BF">Conclusion: \hrulefill</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0">I am typing this for the key:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0"><span style="color:#0060BF">Conclusion: \underline{\makebox[4.94in][s]{\color{red}{Answers will vary but should be based on evidence collected}{\hfill}}}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0">Where the 4.94in part was the value I needed to manually adjust. When I want to have everything underlined, I found a suggestion online to do something like this: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0"><span style="color:#0060BF">\underline{\makebox[5.7in][s]{Choice 2: \color{red}{Students should select a second choice from one of the five options below. They }{\hfill}}}</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0">This works extremely well for those cases, but I'm hoping there is way to do something like that without having to either have everything underlined or nothing at all. I searched for a way to remove
underlining from part of the command (like \textnormal) but I haven't found anything to work for removing underlining. Any suggestion would be very greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0">Amber<o:p></o:p></p>
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