General ⇒ Enrollment form

[fleet]

Hello,

I have to create a enrollment-form, which will be filled in with pencils. It must have rectangles, which has to be filled in by one letter each. It should look like this:

Name: |_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_|
Date of birth: |_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_|
Institution: |_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_||_|

The rectangles should have a top line aswell, just couldn't write it. How do create these rectangles?

I use TeXLive.

Regards, Fleet

[coachbennett1981]

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[fleet]

Thanks for your answer but, I need to create true rectangles for people to write letters in. It shouldn't just be underscores and |'s.

Regards, Fleet

[localghost]

Try something with the pgf/tikZ package.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand*{\fillout}[1]{%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[x=1em,y=3ex,baseline]
    \foreach \x in {0,1,...,#1}
      \draw (0,0) +(\x,0) rectangle (1,1);
  \end{tikzpicture}
}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{@{}ll@{}}
    Name: & \fillout{20} \\
    Date of Birth: & \fillout{8} \\
    Institution: & \fillout{23}
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

Thorsten

[fleet]

Thanks, Thorsten. Your example helped my write what I needed. I have one question more, though:

How do I remove the inner margin/padding in a tikz node, so the text will start at the left edge?

Regards, Fleet

[localghost]

[…] How do I remove the inner margin/padding in a tikz node, so the text will start at the left edge? […]

The package manual suggests to use the »inner sep« option.