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I've recently had to produce a little training manual
where the students have to fill in missing words. To
show where the missing words are, the actual text is replaced
by a ruled line---you've all seen the kind of thing.

I've been trying to work out the best way to do this in PageMaker
(or anything, really!) since to paste in actual lines in the text
is both very difficult (ie it takes a lot of mouse movements) and is
tricky to edit when changes have to be made. My preferred solution
would have been to type the missing words (in a suitably big font to
leave the correct amount of space) and to have the letters in "reverse"
but with underlining on!

The best method I hit on is to use a special font (eg AvantGarde 130% set
width) and to alter the Aldus Prep file so that the PostScript driver
draws a line every time text in this font is used. I know its a kludge,
but it lets me keep an editable text, which seems quite important.

There must be a better way---or better software. Any pointers:
I've another two volumes of this thing to produce!
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L.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk               Les Carr
Tel: +44 703 593649                  Dept of Electronics and Computer Science
Fax: +44 703 593045                  University of Southampton SO9 5NH England