Text Formatting ⇒ hrule on same line as text

[jaybz]

How can I make a horizontal line that is on the same line as some text and be aligned to the middle of the text?

Section 4.3 -------------------

[frabjous]

You might consider using the \sout (strike out) command from the ulem package along with some spacing command, e.g.:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\begin{document}

Some text \sout{\hfill} 

\end{document}

[jaybz]

Is there a way to still control the line thickness with strike out ?

[frabjous]

It seems to use the value of \ULthickness for the thickness, which you can change using \renewcommand.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\renewcommand{\ULthickness}{2pt}

\begin{document}

Some text \sout{\hfill} 

\end{document}

[jaybz]

Sorry to reopen here but I have another problem. Using your method I get quite a bit of space between the text and the line, as in "Section 1" If I use another method "Section 2" I can control the space but the line isn't in the right place. Also I have to use a bunch of "newline's" because "vspace" won't work.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[top=23mm, bottom=20mm, left=25mm, right=25mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{helvet}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{pbox}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\renewcommand{\ULthickness}{2pt}
\pdfpagewidth 215mm
\pdfpageheight 266mm
%--------------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}

\textbf{Section 1}\newline
\vspace{-2mm}
\hspace{15pt}\sout{\hfill} 
\newline
\newline
\newline
\hspace*{6mm}Some text \ldots
\newline
\newline

\textbf{Section 2}
\vspace{2mm}
\hspace*{15mm}\hrule width 160mm height 2pt
\end{document}

[shadgrind]

Don't know if this is what you're looking for, but this is how I usually do it:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Some text \rule[2pt]{1in}{2pt}\vspace{3mm}

Some more text
\end{document}

[frabjous]

Sorry to reopen here but I have another problem. Using your method I get quite a bit of space between the text and the line,

Not to be rude, but nothing there counts as "my method". This thread was originally about placing the horizontal rule on the same line, centered, as the text. You are now trying to do something completely different, and I would suggest completely different methods!

For greater control over spacing, I recommend putting the text and the line in separate paragraphs rather than using \newline. The "wrong position" problem comes from not taking into account that the first line of a paragraph is indented. You can suppress this behavior using \noindent. Probably you want to do this with both the text, and the rule, or with neither. Compare, e.g., Section 1 and Section 2 in this example.

Rather than using \vspace commands, I'd just use the \rule command, and use its first optional argument which controls the vertical position of the bar. The syntax is \rule[vertical position]{width}{thickness}. I in Section 3 to show that vspace does the same thing (and works with paragraph breaks).

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[top=23mm, bottom=20mm, left=25mm, right=25mm,papersize={215mm,266mm}]{geometry}
%--------------------------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}

\noindent\textbf{Section 1}

\noindent\rule[1ex]{\textwidth}{2pt}

\bigskip

Some text

\bigskip

\textbf{Section 2}

\rule[1ex]{\textwidth}{2pt}

\bigskip

Some more text

\bigskip

\textbf{Section 3}

\vspace*{-15ex}\rule{\textwidth}{2pt}

\end{document}

But really, you ought to be using sectioning commands rather than putting in the words "section X" in bold in normal paragraphs. The titlesec package has some commands for adding rules above and below sectioning commands. Let's see if I can work up an example...

Something like this?

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[top=23mm, bottom=20mm, left=25mm, right=25mm,papersize={215mm,266mm}]{geometry}
%--------------------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage[calcwidth]{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}% sectioning command formatted
            {\bfseries}% font commands applied to whole
            {Section~\thesection.}% label
            {0.5em}% separation between label and title
            {}% commands before section title
            [{\titlerule[2pt]}]% commands after
\begin{document}

\section{A section}

Some text

\section{}

Some more

\end{document}

[jaybz]

Thanks shadgrind, I just found documentation on "rule" that's what I went with. Thanks for your reply as well frabjous. I think I was getting my posts mixed up. I also just discovered the \noindent, good suggestion.