How to draw wavy line in the sentence

Question

How to draw wavy line in Latex simply in the sentence line of an article paragraph.

I know there is a underline \uwave comment, but I like to have just wavy line itself, without anything above.

I am looking for something such that \uwave{...} without ....

Adam below provides an answer, but I would like to have a way to shift the underwaveline to the normal position like --- or - - -?

Please help!

Related http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12678/squiggly-arrows-in-tikz — texenthusiast, Mar 09 '14 at 06:39

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

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You can just use \hspace inside of \uwave with the length that you want.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\begin{document}
\uwave{\hspace{1cm}}
\end{document}

enter image description here

(Note that normalem retains the normal treatment of \emphasized text. See p. 1 of the ulem documentation.)

Edit

If you want the wavy line in the middle of the text, you can do:

A\raisebox{0.5em}{\uwave{\hspace{1cm}}}B

Which produces:

enter image description here

You could wrap it in a macro:

\newcommand{\middlewave}[1]{\raisebox{0.5em}{\uwave{\hspace{#1}}}}

And then you can do:

\middlewave{1cm}

Edit 2

If you want to use this inside of \caption, you will need to \protect it. (See What is the difference between Fragile and Robust commands?) Here's a complete MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{mwe} % for a complete Minimal Working Example
\newcommand{\middlewave}[1]{\raisebox{0.5em}{\uwave{\hspace{#1}}}}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\caption{A\protect\middlewave{1cm}B}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

enter image description here

edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

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answered Mar 09 '14 at 03:22

Adam Liter

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Thanks, is there a way to shift the underwaveline to the normal position like --- or - - -? – wonderich Mar 09 '14 at 03:35
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You could use \raisebox{1ex}{\uwave{\hspace{1cm}}} – corporal Mar 09 '14 at 03:46
Looks like we had the same idea, @corporal. :) – Adam Liter Mar 09 '14 at 03:47
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@Idear see my edit. – Adam Liter Mar 09 '14 at 03:48
somehow I compile with the bug if we put this comment line into the Figure \caption{ \middlewave{1cm} }. Do you know why? – wonderich Mar 09 '14 at 03:57
Even if I try: \caption{ ... \raisebox{0.5em}{\uwave{\hspace{.5cm}}} ... } has a problem in the caption of Figure. Do you know why? – wonderich Mar 09 '14 at 04:01
Outside the Figure \caption{}, there is no problem at all for using your comment \middlewave{1cm}. Why? – wonderich Mar 09 '14 at 04:05
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@Idear see my update. – Adam Liter Mar 09 '14 at 04:07
@ Adam, you are really an expert!!! – wonderich Mar 09 '14 at 04:07
let us continue this discussion in chat – wonderich Mar 09 '14 at 05:09
how to make it just slightly wavy? – Epa Jun 22 '15 at 01:26
@Thumbolt There won't be an easy way to do that with the solution offered here. I would take a look at TikZ because you'll probably have to draw your own wavy line in order to make it less wavy. Nicer wavy line with TikZ might be a good place to start. – Adam Liter Jun 25 '15 at 04:10

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