Suggestion: let blank lines end at the end of the line
Sk1nk opened this issue · 4 comments
Since the lockdown I need to create more and more exercise-sheets and your package is saving me a lot of trouble ever since. Thank you very much for all the effort you put into this.
I recently came across a problem I couldn't figure out. Is there a way to let the blank line end at the end of a line like \hrulefill would? Right now I am adjusting the width=.xx\linewidth for each blank space to give my students as much writing space as possible, but I would love a boolean, that would complete the line to the end of the line, after commands such as width are fulfilled. That way I could do something like
"Give the definition for the following
- factor: ______
- product: _____
- meaning of life: _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________"
The \linegoal from linegoal package might be helpful:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[pass, showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage{linegoal}
\usepackage{xsim}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]
abc \blank[width=\linegoal]{text}
\end{document}
It's a reasonable wish and shouldn't be too hard to implement. Meanwhile @muzimuzhi's suggestion seems a valid way to go :)
After thinking about this a little bit more I believe using \linegoal might be a better option than to implement something myself.
What do you think?
Perhaps users may also want to add a punctuation after such blank lines, and when width=\linegoal is used, that could (only) be supported by adding a new blank option:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pass, showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage{linegoal}
\usepackage{xsim}
\begin{document}
current:
abc \blank[width=-3pt+\linegoal]{text}.
def \blank[width=2\linewidth-3pt+\linegoal]{text}.
% expected:
% abc \blank[width=\linegoal, end-punct={.}]{text}
\end{document}