RTF Line separator

Question

Does someone knows how to insert a horizontal line separator in a RTF file?

Example:

some text

some other text

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 24 '14 at 19:44

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You could use the \dpline commands (See the section on "Drawing Objects" on page 157 in the RTF Spec 1.9.1).

Here's a sample that should do what you want:

{\rtf1
{\pard some text.\par}
{\pard {\*\do\dobxcolumn\dobypara\dodhgt
        \dpline\dpxsize9200\dplinesolid\dplinew30}\par}
{\pard some other text.\par}
}

RTF Output Preview:

You customize the line color with \dplineco[rgb], width with \dplinew), line-styles etc.

And if you're interested in RTF, you would find the RTF Pocket Guide helpful -- it is much less boring than the RTF Spec! Specifically, it talks about other ways of drawing a horizontal line.

edited Dec 24 '14 at 19:44

Humayun Shabbir

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answered Dec 18 '09 at 18:34

Ashutosh Mehra

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Great! I just bought the book: thank you for this advice witch will be a great help ;) – Martin Delille Dec 21 '09 at 11:05
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@AshutoshMehra this won't render the line for me in OS X TextEdit.App which I had thought was a full-featured RTF editor. Which editor are you folks using? Any idea why I can't produce a line with these commands in my editor? – TeXnewbie Aug 16 '13 at 15:02
I have the same problem as @TeXnewbie; macOS's rendering approach doesn't seem to treat this as anything; I just see a blank space. – Ky - Jan 03 '18 at 16:30

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 01 '12 at 14:15

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If you just need a simple horizontal rule you can also try this:

{\pard \brdrb \brdrs\brdrw10\brsp20 {\fs4\~}\par \pard}

edited Nov 01 '12 at 14:15

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answered Nov 01 '12 at 13:53

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what text editor are you using? When I try this in OS X TextEdit.App, the editor does not render anything that looks like a line or horizontal rule. – TeXnewbie Aug 16 '13 at 15:06

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 01 '15 at 14:59

Here's code to draw a line at any arbitrary angle:

{\rtf1
{\shp
{\shpinst \shpbxpage \shpbypage \shpleft200 \shptop400 \shpright3000 \shpbottom2000
{\sp{\sn shapeType}{\sv 32}}
}}}

See RTF spec. for 'shapeType' options.

As I begin to learn RTF, it appears that '\do' draw objects are of limited use, and '\shp' is the way to go. For instance, you can only do horizontal lines with \dpline. You can't suppress the rectangle (zero line width) around \dptxbx. Neither \dptxbx nor \dptxbxtext will obey \fittext.

On macOS, this just renders "shapeType32" – Ky - Jan 03 '18 at 16:31 — Ky -, Jan 03 '18 at 16:31

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 16 '16 at 16:16

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I've just successfully made a convincing horizontal rule in Apple's Textedit by: insert a table, set the cols and rows to 1 (change the colour of the border at this point if you want) type a single character (a space) in the cell, select it and open the font palette, set font size to 0.2

answered Feb 16 '16 at 16:16

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This was a coding question so your answer is not very relevant, but thank you anyway :-) – Martin Delille Feb 16 '16 at 16:19

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