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Red squiggly imitation

Is there an elegant way to draw red squigglies under text, to emulate what a [source] code editor does when it detects errors (either spelling mistakes, syntactical errors or semantic errors)? Here ...
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Outlined characters in Beamer

Following Outlined characters, you can make selectable outlined text using the contour package. For example, the following writes "Text text text contour text", with "contour" in green with a red ...
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Closer underline

I am currently using \underline{...} to underline text. However, I want the underline to be closer to the letters (as of now, there's too much whitespace between the letters and the line). Is there ...
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How to leave underscored white space? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Long underscore in LaTeX I am not even sure if there isn't a proper typographical term for this thing. I use it for a questionnaire, where I have questions like: I ...
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Apply formatting to outermost parentheses

I have some text information where I need to apply a text format to all the outer most parentheses such as making them larger and/or bold. In a sense I want to process text like ...
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Writing clean long underscores [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Long underscore in LaTeX I'm writing a document in which I encourage the reader to "fill in the blanks" in order to be actively engaged with the proof. Is there any way ...
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underline omitting the descenders

I'm very well aware that it is considered best practice not to use underlining other than on typewriters and in handwriting. But sometimes it is needed nonetheless. In my opinion the typographically ...
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List of symbols with glossaries — problem with using \underline

I'm having a weird problem with glossaries (TeXLive 2011, glossaries v3.01), illustrated by the following example: % compile this with % pdflatex example.tex % makeindex -s "example.ist" -t ...
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Long underscore in LaTeX

In LaTeX, how would I make a long underscore? For example, Name _______ Signature _______
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How can I underline a single word with LaTeX?

Given a simple paragraph, how do I underline a word in that paragraph? (Note: I post this here because it wasn't really obvious using google or this site and my TexNicCenter is somehow missing this ...