[Tex/LaTex] How to make a blank underline?

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Phantom and line break

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I'm looking to produce something like this:

blah blah ____ blah blah

But with a solid line.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There is a very simple way to do it. Using \rule[depth]{width}{height}, I know you didn't provided a Minimal Working Example, but here it is a very simple example:

    \documentclass{article}
    \begin{document}
    blah blah \rule{1cm}{0.15mm} blah blah
    \end{document}

The code produces the following output