Horizontal lines

Clause9 Styling
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Hello everyone,

I have a question that should be actually easy to solve, but I can’t seem to find the answer, a function, a workaround or sth similar: I would like to insert one or two simple horizontal lines into docs to create a visual separation.
(We would like to separate a subtotal from the calculation above, as well as the subtotal from the grand total, and than want to close the calculation with two horizontal lines. Already tried by table settings, functions and other, but couldn’t get the style I wished.)

Thank you very much in advance!

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Hi Surena,

There is unfortunately no easy way of just including one or more horizontal lines somewhere in the document.

There are some imperfect workarounds, however, such as:

  • inserting a table with two rows with one cell each where the outside borders are disabled, resulting visually in a horizontal line
  • inserting underscores between quotes & curly brackets, e.g. {“______”} (but this is a really ‘dirty’ hack so I would not recommend it)

Is any of the above a suitable workaround?

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My personal favourite is actually to use @rtab(10). This inserts a right-aligned tab at the end of the paragraph, which also has an underlined “leader”. From an MS Word perspective, I would consider that to be the cleanest option, and it happens to be easily available in Clause9 as well :slight_smile:

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Hello both of you,

thank you very much for your input!

I had already tried the first workaround, but unfortunately it didn’t lead to the desired result. The clause in question contains mandatory table settings, which are necessary due to the table content within the clause itself and cannot be changed. As a result, I cannot adjust the table settings within this clause for the workaround, bc it would also apply the formatting to the rest of the table, which is not intended.

For this reason, I tried to apply the workaround in a separate clause where I used the table settings accordingly. However, since this was in a separate clause, the spacing was too large in relation to the preceding calculation and the rest of the document below.
At the same time, we have the principle of not adjusting basic formatting (like space between clauses) at document level to maintain consistency across our documents.

Thanks also for the idea with @rtab(10). However, as this would require a mandatory manual adjustment in the Word document afterwards bc of the inserted tabs, which goes against our automation principles, we have ultimately decided against using these lines.

But as mentioned – thank you again for the inspiration!

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