Xetex – Dotted Line with Appropriate Length for Answering a Question

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Kindly have a look at this code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX}
\usepackage[small,sf,bf]{titlesec}
 \setromanfont{Georgia}
\usepackage{amssymb} 
\newcommand{\checkbox}{$\square$}
\begin{document} 
If appropriate \checkbox  . Why appropriate, specify? ...........
If inappropriate \checkbox . Why inappropriate, specify? ..............
If appropriate \checkbox . Why appropriate, specify? ...........\\
If inappropriate \checkbox . Why inappropriate, specify? ...........
 \end{document}

How can I make a dotted like, of appropriate length so that it is depressed, fainter, has consistent length so that it occupies the remaining white space in the line or has specified length.

Best Answer

What you are probably looking for is \dotfill. Like \hfill, it spreads as much as possible, but inserting dots instead of white space. If you lock \dotfill into a box of fixed width, you get dots of a specific width. The \fillin command takes this width as an optional argument; if it's missing, the width defaults to 3cm.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\newcommand{\checkbox}{$\square$}
\newcommand\fillin[1][3cm]{\makebox[#1]{\dotfill}}
\begin{document} 
If appropriate \checkbox  . Why appropriate, specify? \fillin\ 
If inappropriate \checkbox . Why inappropriate, specify? \fillin[4cm] 
If appropriate \checkbox . Why appropriate, specify? \dotfill\\
If inappropriate \checkbox . Why inappropriate, specify? \fillin[2cm]
\end{document}

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Formatting – How to Underline with a Dash-Dotted Line

Heavily based on https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27260/36296

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand{\mydash}[1]{%
    \tikz[baseline=(todotted.base)]{
        \node[inner sep=1pt,outer sep=0pt] (todotted) {#1};
        \draw[dash dot] (todotted.south west) -- (todotted.south east);
        \draw[dashed] ([yshift=-2pt]todotted.south west) -- ([yshift=-2pt]todotted.south east);
    }%
}%

\begin{document}

\mydash{double line}

\end{document}

While the above solution is sensitive to the decent of the words to be underlined (e.g. if there are letters such as j in the words), the following will place the lines at the same position, regardless the characters.

 \documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\mydash}[1]{%
    \tikz[baseline=(todotted.base)]{
        \node[inner sep=1pt,outer sep=0pt] (todotted) {\strut #1};
        \draw[dash dot] ([yshift=3pt]todotted.south west) -- ([yshift=3pt]todotted.south east);
        \draw[dashed] ([yshift=2pt]todotted.south west) -- ([yshift=2pt]todotted.south east);
    }%
}%

\begin{document}

\mydash{doguble line}
\lipsum[2]

\mydash{double line}
\lipsum[2]

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] How to create a table with double line column

to my taste the the following table is more nice:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
  \centering
  \caption{Caption for the table}
  \label{tab:table1}
  \begin{tabular}{ l r }
                            \toprule
    Corpus & Tokens     \\  \midrule
    a & b               \\ 
    d & e               \\  
    f & g               \\  \midrule
    total & 193,001,930 \\  \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Addendum:

If you persist to have table with rules, than hhline package enable setting distance between rules in double rule:

\setlength\doublerulesep{0.5pt}

which gives:

Complete MWE of above figure is:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hhline}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h!]
  \centering
  \setlength\doublerulesep{0.5pt}% <-- set distance between double rule
\caption{Caption for the table}
  \label{tab:table1}
\begin{tabular}{ | l | r |}
                            \hline
    Corpus  & Tokens    \\  \hhline{==}
    a       & b         \\  \hline
    d       & e         \\  \hline
    f       & g         \\  \hhline{==}
    total & 193,001,930 \\  \hline
\end{tabular}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

Addedendum (2):

In case, that you liked the following result:

than you need only to replace \hhline{==} with \hhline{|==|} and \hline with `\hhline{|--|}.

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Formatting – How to Underline with a Dash-Dotted Line

[Tex/LaTex] How to create a table with double line column

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