Text Formatting ⇒ Underline text and adjoining blank space?

[zach]

I'm fairly new to raw LaTeX and have what I think is a fairly basic question. I'd like to know how to underline text and some space afterwards so that the total underline length can be specified. I'm creating a form with names to be underlined and want all the lines to be of uniform length even though the names are of different character length. The closest I can get is the following code:

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\documentclass{book} \begin{document}
\noindent I want there to be 2.5 inches of underline beneath each name, but I don't want the spaces between the name and line like here:
\vspace*{0.4in}
\newline \noindent Zach Doe
\newline \underline{\hspace*{2.5in}}
\vspace*{.2in}
\newline \noindent John Doe
\newline \underline{\hspace*{2.5in}}
\vspace*{.2in}
\newline \noindent Jane Doe
\newline \underline{\hspace*{2.5in}}%
\end{document}

Hopefully my question is clear. Let me know if it isn't. I'd appreciate your help.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Zach,

welcome to the board!

You could use \makebox:

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\noindent\underline{\makebox[2.5in][l]{Jane Doe}}

Stefan

[zach]

Stefan,

That works perfectly. I've never used that command before. Thanks!