Text FormattingCSS border-right equivalent

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Toshiro
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CSS border-right equivalent

Post by Toshiro »

Hello!

I would like to annotate text in the following manner:
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I'm aware of \underline and \overline, but I need to make a border on the right side, like in the attached image, so it looks like an unbroken chain of "__|¯¯|__|¯¯|__".

Thank you.

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Stefan Kottwitz
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CSS border-right equivalent

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Hi Toshiro,

welcome to the board!

A quick and easy way would be to define a TikZ matrix for the characters, where each character is a node which can be referred to, for drawing such a path.

For example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \matrix (m) [matrix of nodes]{
    A & B & C & D & E\\};
  \draw (m-1-1.north west) -- (m-1-1.north east) -- (m-1-1.south east)
    -- (m-1-2.south west) -- (m-1-2.south east) -- (m-1-2.north east)
    -- (m-1-5.north east);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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