Re: Underline

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

The reason for wanting underline is aesthetic. I prefer it to reverse or a different colour.

Sadly, underlin.exe only appears to work for me with standard 25x80 screens. Since I usually use
a non-standard number of lines, it does not help me much.

Paul Breeze

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:49:14 -0500, Patricia M Godfrey wrote:
>Scrub what I said earlier about printer files; totally irrelevant. There
>are two problems here, one difficult, the other easy. The difficult part
>is getting anything to look underlined on a VGA screen in Xy. I tried
>running UNDERLIN.EXE (which I find I still have in my Xy directory)
>before loading XyDOS, then commanding Help Colors . Various
>colors and numbers display, but none are underlined. Now it is true that
>I'm temporarily working with a crippled monitor (it lost its magenta
>signal a while back, and I'm still debating what to do), but I seem to
>recall from back when VGA first came in that this was an "issue." I will
>try again on the laptop, but LCDs are, from what I've been hearing on
>this list, even more problematical. Would Ultravision help? If you can
>once get an underlined mode to display on your screen, just copy that
>setting from the MD UL item to the MD IT one in SETTINGS.DFL and you're
>in business.
>  I'm a tad puzzled why you want underlining when you can have reverse
>video or a different color, not to mention keeping the formatting deltas
>visible so as to be sure where things begin and end, but de gustibus...
>Patricia
>  You know, there must be a way to produce underlining on screen, because
>WordImPerfect uses red underlining for words its (pretty pathetic) spell
>checker doesn't recognize. but it's probably a Win API.