Jano Kula wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
anyhow, underbar is from the typewriter time and just a poor mans emphasis thing
Not always. A year ago a graphic designer used it a quiet creative way in the book of interviews. All the questions or persons were underlined, often hyphenated. It was an experiment and it worked. By the way, some of the caption and figure alingment Mojca asked for was used there also. I've put few sample pages here (done in LaTeX):
http://web.iol.cz/kula/sample.pdf (1,5MB).
And in Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography (2000) underlined text are used everywhere. To much to my taste.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/390704486X?v=glance
So not for emphasis but as a graphic element it is -- and will be -- used.
if one works on a grid, one can use the textbackground mechanism to provide underlined text honoring hyphenation (there is probably an example of that somewhere) maybe there's also some pdf primitive, in which case one can use the context feature mechanism Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------