A better type of underline?

[SHCanada2]

I looked in the forums for underline, and surprisingly only 2 pages of topics are returned.

 

Anywho, the CA underlining always has the line directly under, and touching the text.

 

Is there a way to have a gap?

[Chrisb222]

It does not touch the text for me, in plan or layout, Arial on a Mac. I also tried a couple different fonts, no thouchie.

 

[Doug_N]

 

Rich text and just underline the characters not the spaces.

This would be a good feature for CA to implement though.  

[SHCanada2]

  On 4/1/2025 at 9:09 PM, Doug_N said:

Rich text and just underline the characters not the spaces.

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your screenshot looks pretty close to touching...at least with my glasses... on my computer

 

The screenshot I posted was once I printed to PDF using the CA PDF driver

  On 4/1/2025 at 9:04 PM, Chrisb222 said:

layout, Arial on a Mac

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does the PDF show like that as well on the Mac?

 

[SHCanada2]

i can get a little bit of clearance by picking another font, but it is still tiny

[SHCanada2]

well found, what I could only describe as a classic work around and reminds me of the 90s typing ____  in places.

 The below is for font size 9"

1.don't underline the text

2. put a bunch of spaces underneath on the next line and underline those and reduce font size(in my case I set to 7). (and adjust number of spaces to match word above)

3. Set user specified line height for the above to be 35% (if you do not change the font size to be lower per above, it looks like  you cannot specify lower numbers for this property. Mine kept going back to 35 even if I type 10 or 15). I.e. if you keep step 2. at 9" size, it looks like it can only get so close vertically to the text above it.

 

looks much prettier...but still there must be a better way

 

...maybe it is a side effect of having my windows display at 150%...like the old text wrap issue form a couple years ago

 

 

[Chrisb222]

  On 4/1/2025 at 10:07 PM, SHCanada2 said:

your screenshot looks pretty close to touching...at least with my glasses... on my computer

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Yes it's close, closer than I'd like, but not touching.

 

  On 4/1/2025 at 10:07 PM, SHCanada2 said:

The screenshot I posted was once I printed to PDF using the CA PDF driver

does the PDF show like that as well on the Mac?

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CA PDF driver output matches the screen:

 

[Chrisb222]

  On 4/2/2025 at 1:32 AM, SHCanada2 said:

looks much prettier...

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Yep, that looks much better, I'd like the ability to specify the underline offset, and the line weight.

 

  On 4/2/2025 at 1:32 AM, SHCanada2 said:

but still there must be a better way

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https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/forum/8-suggestions/  Good luck!

[richoffan]

Less convenient than your suggestion BUT a quicker work around is to use a CAD line. Gives you complete control of the line and it can be blocked to the text. Can be on it's own layer also. Just remember to turn off fill pr bring the line to the front:

 

 

 

[Doug_N]

 

I really don't understand the problem.  CA can do text both ways, at least if you use richtext.

 

For the library user, I think he should do an early withdrawal on his request.

[SHCanada2]

  On 4/2/2025 at 6:38 PM, Doug_N said:

I really don't understand the problem

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the problem is the space between the letters and the underline beneath those letters (touching in my case), not that underlining can be set to underline a space in between words

 

CA gives me this:

 

I want something more like:

 

 

[Doug_N]

I see!  Sorry i misunderstood the problem.