It's just as the title says.
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Some details could be helpful. I understand »sections« as headings thus a part of the document structure. Perhaps you mean the place between two paragraphs. – Thorsten Donig Oct 13 '10 at 10:11
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@Thorsten: Yes, you are right. I changed the title. – Neves Oct 13 '10 at 10:36
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2Also see: How do I insert a border below text? – Werner Dec 08 '11 at 18:47
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How does this look:
Whilst I generally favour TikZ for anything vaguely graphical, this was achieved with a simple \rule:
\documentclass{article}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\noindent\rule[0.5ex]{\linewidth}{1pt}
\lipsum[2]
\end{document}
You can thicken the line by changing the 1pt to something else (or make it thinner, I guess). Perhaps style purists would want to change the before and after spacing a little.
(Added in edit: in the comments, Style Purist Will recommends adding a little height, and as it's so easy to do - I'd forgotten about the optional argument, myself - I thought it worth adding in the demonstration. He also used \linewidth rather than \textwidth - my original choice - which is a little more robust as it will vary correctly in lists and other environments where the linewidth can get altered.)
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I'd recommend raising that rule a little with something like
\rule[0.5ex]{\linewidth}{1pt}. I guess that makes me a style purist, whatever that is;)– Will Robertson Oct 13 '10 at 12:54 -
@Andrew: you'd have gotten hella downvotes if you actually had written up a TiKZ answer. =) – Willie Wong Oct 13 '10 at 14:06
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@Will: I've folded in your suggestions (height and using linewidth). @Willie: I can see (but maybe you can't) that there has been a TikZ answer to this question, but it got deleted (by its author). So I was saved the ignominy of the downvotes by Mr X. – Andrew Stacey Oct 13 '10 at 18:07
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Why not just use
\noindnent\hrulefillor even just\hrule? Just for the convenience of changing the width or length more easily? – frabjous Oct 13 '10 at 18:30 -
@frabjous: because I don't use those enough for them to be near the top of my mind! (I'm particularly intrigued by
\noindnent, what does that do?) – Andrew Stacey Oct 13 '10 at 21:39 -
7It embarasses you on stackexchange when it's too late to edit your post to fix your dumb typo, that's what it does. ;) – frabjous Oct 13 '10 at 23:54
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3Needing the
\noindentwith\ruleseems strange. I wonder why it wasn't written to just work in either h mode or v mode. Looking at the definition of\@rule, it'd be a trivial modification: remove\leavevmode\hboxand replace\vrulewith\ifvmode\hrule\else\vrule\fi– TH. Oct 14 '10 at 09:10
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In ConTeXt, \blackrule gives a horizontal line. By default, the width of the line 1em wide and 1ex tall. The width, height, and depth are changed using the respective options. For example:
\blackrule[width=\hsize, height=1pt, depth=0.5ex]
Despite its name,
\blackrulealso draws colored rules.\blackrule[color=red]\setupblackrulesspecifies the options for all\blackrules.As a bonus,
\blackrules(notice the plural) draws multiple horizontal rules. For example:\blackrules[n=6, width=\hsize, distance=0.5ex]draws 6 rules separated by a distance of 0.5ex.
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I typically use \hrulefill or \noindent\hrulefill to achieve a horizontal line.
