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hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng) writes:

>In article <12333@ecs.soton.ac.uk> lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr) writes:
>>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

>The easiest thing to do would be to set up tabs with leaders. Leaders are
>characters that appear before the tab starting from the place where you hit
>the tab key.
>Hope that solves the problem!

Using tabs and leaders will not then allow editing of the text in that
a tab is at a fixed position with regard to the edge of the text
block.

An alternative solution might be to use an underline character "_" and
increase the leading slightly to give the writer more space.

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