Text Formatting ⇒ horizontal line in figure caption

[yotama9]

Hello.

Is there a way to insert a horizontal line in the figure captions?

I tried with using \line(1,0){3} but I get a long underscore (_) I tried using \raisebox{2pt}[0pt][0pt]{\line(1,0){3}} but I get the following error:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].

Which I found indicate that latex might be stuck in a loop.

Thanks

[Juanjo]

\line should be used inside the picture environment. Use

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\rule[dp]{wd}{hg}

which writes a black rectangle wd wide, hg high and located at dp from the baseline. If wd is "big" and hg is "small", you get an horizontal line. For example, \rule{2cm}{0.4pt} draws an horizontal line 2cm long, having a thickness of 0.4pt; \rule[-5pt]{2cm}{0.4pt} draws the same line 5pt below the baseline.

[localghost]

It's recommendable to raise the line in dependence of the font size.

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\rule[1ex]{2cm}{0.5pt}

Best regards
Thorsten

[yotama9]

First of all thanks.

Second, my advisor saw the shapes in the figure captions and he didn't like them and told me to remove them so I doesn't have any use to it.

Sorry for wasting your time and thanks a lot. I hope I'll remember this thread on the next time I'll need such a thing.

Yotam