Re: Feature request---Lines.

[Giovanni Zezza]

Il Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:43:34 +1100, Jeff Kingston scriveva:

>To get a line of + signs or whatever you could put this in your
>mydefs file:
>
>    def @LineOf right x
>    {
>       x & @LineOf x
>    }
>
>It's similar to the @Leaders symbol used in tables of contents.  I
>haven't tested either of these definitions but they are straightforward.

This way, though, I think, space between signs is shrinkable. This leads
(sorry) to unaligned leaders. In fact, @Leaders is defined in @ContentsItem
as:

  def @Leaders { @ContentsLeader &@ContentsLeaderGap @Leaders }

being @ContentsLeader:

    named @ContentsLeader {  ..  } # leader symbol in contents

and @ContentsLeaderGap:

    named @ContentsLeaderGap {  4s  @OrIfPlain 2s } # gap between leaders

I was never able, though, to get the same behaviour as in LaTeX \dotfill.

Ciao.