How to draw wavy line in Latex simply in the sentence line of an article paragraph.
I know there is a underline \uwave comment, but I like to have just wavy line itself, without anything above.
I am looking for something such that \uwave{...} without ....
Adam below provides an answer, but I would like to have a way to shift the underwaveline to the normal position like --- or - - -?
Please help!
You can just use \hspace inside of \uwave with the length that you want.
\documentclass{article} \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} \begin{document} \uwave{\hspace{1cm}} \end{document} 
(Note that normalem retains the normal treatment of \emphasized text. See p. 1 of the ulem documentation.)
If you want the wavy line in the middle of the text, you can do:
A\raisebox{0.5em}{\uwave{\hspace{1cm}}}B Which produces:
You could wrap it in a macro:
\newcommand{\middlewave}[1]{\raisebox{0.5em}{\uwave{\hspace{#1}}}} And then you can do:
\middlewave{1cm} If you want to use this inside of \caption, you will need to \protect it. (See What is the difference between Fragile and Robust commands?) Here's a complete MWE:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} \usepackage{mwe} % for a complete Minimal Working Example \newcommand{\middlewave}[1]{\raisebox{0.5em}{\uwave{\hspace{#1}}}} \begin{document} \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{example-image-a} \caption{A\protect\middlewave{1cm}B} \end{figure} \end{document} 
\raisebox{1ex}{\uwave{\hspace{1cm}}} :)