Text underline in XARA

**antimix** · 24 August 2007, 01:16 PM

Hello to all,

yesterday I was composing a kind of graphics & text page, and I just copied and pasted the RTF text into the text boxes. I discovered that all the underline words were gone (the underline, not the word)

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I went back and created a dummy text box, and I discovered the Underline button was missed from any text tool

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http://www.talkgraphics.com/attachme...1&d=1187958111

As yuu can see, no U is in the toolbar.

Help, XARA did you forgot it ? How I can have underlined text in the text object ?

Regards.

antimix

**raynerj1** · 24 August 2007, 01:43 PM

Xara has never had an underline. You can create your own using just a line.

**Egg Bramhill** · 24 August 2007, 08:04 PM

Antimix,

As John says there's no underline in Xtreme. Do a search on the forums for "underline" and you'll find many posts re this ommision.

**antimix** · 24 August 2007, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by raynerj1

Xara has never had an underline. You can create your own using just a line.

It is really annoying with a long article !! We got XARA for its easy usage and to save time during work

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Dear XARA,

please since you promoted version 3.x also as a kind of advanced graphic Desktop Publishing application, with capability on "..importing RTF text", we expect you almost fully support *ALL* the features that can be expressed through the use of the RTF language instructions. May be tables are a little too far for now, but the BASIC things like BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERLINE *SHOULD* be present

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Hope to see this soon in a 3.2.4.xxxx version...

Regards.

antimix

**Bob Hahn** · 24 August 2007, 09:19 PM

I suppose the ability to work with underscored text may be useful to some, but there is another way!

Right now, as far as I know, if you want to underline a word, you'll need to create that line. Easy enough. But! if it's to emphasize text, you could always use italics.

**steve.ledger** · 24 August 2007, 10:08 PM

This is possible more useful when dealing with pre formatted documents that have underlines within the body text and you want to use them in Xara:

Print the document to PDF first (I use PDF Creator print driver) - then import the PDF into Xara without loosing those underlines.

You could I suppose go to the trouble of first creating your textual content in say Wordpad with underlines in place, print to PDF then import into Xara - this might be faster than drawing underlines when there are lot's of underlined sections?.

**gwpriester** · 24 August 2007, 11:00 PM

Why do you want to have underlined text?

With the exception of indicating hyperlinked text, underlined text is rarely used in contemporary type setting. As Bob points out, if you wish to call attention a part of your text, use bold face and/or italics.

Gary

**Egg Bramhill** · 24 August 2007, 11:58 PM

Gary,

Your just after an argument

I must admit I rarely if ever use underlined text, more so since the advent of html using it as a link feature. But at the same time it is a common text formatting feature and something Xara should address.

**behzad** · 25 August 2007, 01:56 AM

I really do not want to see xara become indesign

**DGehman** · 25 August 2007, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Gary,

Your just after an argument

....[Underlining] is a common text formatting feature and something Xara should address.

Hmm, I wonder. Underlining grows out of handwritten communications. Later, underlining was adopted in the typewriter age as a convention for italics or bold, since until near the end of their development, they were constrained to a single font and font effect.

Is underlining really still needed, or is it just an anachronism?