Re: drawing requests following the line

[Deri]

On Thursday, 5 September 2024 02:25:56 BST Philippe PITTOLI via wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've a question regarding drawing requests.
> 
> I would like for example to underline or highlight some text even
> when it is spanning over multiple lines (or pages).  Thus, I suppose
> the best way would be to perform a drawing request that somewhat
> "follows the line".
> 
> As far as I understand, some macros actually prevent hyphenation
> to avoid dealing with the (yet very common) "corner case" of a
> carriage return (or a page change).
> 
> Any tips or alternative solutions?
> 
> Thanks and have a great day!

Hi Philippe,

I believe the mom macro set has an UNDERLINE macro see:-

https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/goodies.html#underline

Note that it can only be used by -Tps (not -Tpdf). I think it is using a 
postscript snippet from Tadziu.

Cheers

Deri