How can I make a horizontal dashed line?

Question

How can I make a horizontal dashed line in LaTeX?

Just writing lots of single dashes results in a continuous horizontal line.

score 39 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 28 '13 at 13:52

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You can look at the dashrule package, for example.

edited Mar 28 '13 at 13:52

lockstep

answered Mar 03 '11 at 10:17

chl

Nice... a lot of flexibility :) – meep.meep Mar 03 '11 at 10:26
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It would also be great if this answer included a simple example of how to use dashrule. – g33kz0r Apr 21 '16 at 18:08

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '11 at 13:19

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With Plain leaders, for example:

\def\dashfill{\cleaders\hbox{-}\hfill}
\hbox to \hsize{\dashfill\hfil}
\bye

Changing the spacing is then a matter of redefining the dashfill's hbox:

\def\dashfill{\cleaders\hbox to 2em{-}\hfill}

answered Mar 03 '11 at 13:19

morbusg

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 03 '11 at 10:17

2

What about adding spaces between the dashes: - - - - - - ? When I try it, it works just fine. Or do you want something else?

answered Mar 03 '11 at 10:17

meep.meep

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