[texhax] Entering horizontal lines between items

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Wed, 9 Jan 2013 14:43:36 -0500,
Jerry wrote:
> Essentially, what I want to accomplish is saying:
> 
> Put TEXT here, then underline from the end of that text 5 inches from
> the left margin and then place THIS text, then underline to right
> margin. Not every line has every item in the same location and some
> lines have 3 items on them.

You should check out tikz.  It should be quite easy to place the text
where you want using a few nodes.  To draw the lines, you'd just
connect the nodes.

Neal