# Horizontal lines not working

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/horizontal-lines-not-working/79932>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 11, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/horizontal-lines-not-working/79932 "2006-03-11T20:57:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_VanderWerf)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/horizontal-lines-not-working/79932/1 "2006-03-11T20:57:04Z")

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RDoc’s horizontal line feature seems to have broken recently (maybe  
since 1.8.4?.

$ cat README  
= Title

Should get a horizontal line after this paragraph.

* * *

This text is not shown!

$ rdoc README

```
                         README:

```

Generating HTML…

Files: 1  
Classes: 0  
Modules: 0  
Methods: 0  
Elapsed: 0.124s  
$ grep shown doc/\*\*/\*.html  
$  
$ ruby -v  
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]  
$ rdoc -v  
RDoc V1.0.1 - 20041108

The html output is missing the horiz line and everything after it.

Can anyone confirm this?

The rdoc I’m using is the one that came with ruby.

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**Author:** ![Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Joel\_VanderWerf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Joel_VanderWerf)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/horizontal-lines-not-working/79932/2 "2006-04-01T00:20:59Z")

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I case anyone is interested, I sent a patch to ruby-core:

[http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/7651](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/7651)

(The problem only affects horiz lines in plain text files, not in .rb  
files.)