From: Patrick Lam (plam@plam.lcs.mit.edu)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 23:47:22 EDT
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:45:26AM +0100, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> It's often desirable to have part of a line of text
> left-aligned and part right-aligned. This is common
> in the contents and index pages of books. When we
> have tables there will be a table-abuse way to do this
> but is there a way now? Perhaps with some kind of
> special tab?
I've always wondered what the correct way to do that in
a word processor (or LaTeX, for that matter) would be.
> An enhancement of the above also in contents pages of
> magazines and books is to fill the intervening space
> between the left and right with a line of period
> characters. Does any word processor support this?
> It would be very useful.
Tab leaders (which were my first Abi patch) allow that for
tabs. Edit a tab's properties and you'll see that you can choose
what character gets drawn in the interior of the tab.
pat
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