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I am writing my senior design report and I am creating it using Overleaf-LaTeX. My issue is that I can't get the underscore to look like thissignature

I am using underscores to manually do this, with no avail since Overleaf will not add more than one space between underscores. This is my first time using LaTeX, I apologize if this is extremely easy.

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    Use a rule like so \rule{2in}{0.4pt}. Here is a full sample code: \parbox{2in}{\rule{2in}{0.4pt}\\ ``Advisor Name''\\Faculty Advisor}\hfill\parbox{2in}{\rule{1in}{0.4pt}\\ Date\\\mbox{}} – azetina May 13 '16 at 01:14
  • If you really want to force multiple spaces, you can (ab)use ~. That is, ~~~~ gives four spaces. – Mark May 13 '16 at 02:13
  • We've had this before... – Werner May 13 '16 at 06:48
  • @Werner for instance your answer here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/48157/90087 The only difference I can see is that the OP, by the posted image example, asked for thicker gray signature lines. – A Feldman May 13 '16 at 12:27

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Using @azetina above code, but adding some xcolor for the gray signature lines: 

\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}

    \parbox{2in}{{\color{gray}\rule{2in}{1pt}}\\%
    ``Advisor's Name''\\Faculty Advisor}\hfill\parbox{2in}%
{{\color{gray}\rule{1in}{1pt}}\\%
    Date\\\mbox{}} 

 \end{document}

enter image description here

If a different shade of gray is needed then after \usepackage{xcolor} put a rgb definition, for instance \definecolor{gray}{RGB}{192,192,192} will give this result:

enter image description here

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  • Note that how you defined the color setting you don't the \color{black} for the text. – azetina May 13 '16 at 04:38
  • I tried taking that out, and it made the undertext gray. I figure that if I had grouped things correctly I probably would not need the \color{black} . – A Feldman May 13 '16 at 04:46
  • @azetina took your advice and re-grouped so that the \color{black} control sequences are not needed. – A Feldman May 13 '16 at 04:51
  • @azetina and thanks for editing out the superfluous brackets. – A Feldman May 13 '16 at 04:59
  • That is why we are here to help each other. Note that the {} holds and ends the color statement, hence, we can make the suggested edit I did :) – azetina May 13 '16 at 05:00