I'd use lines and individual textboxes. I don't think it would be that hard
if done that way.
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"Steve Rindsberg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In article <575B781C-F39C-480C-865A-(E-Mail Removed)>, Oliphant
> Smeaton wrote:
>> I teach Latin and Greek at a local community college. It would be very
>> helpful if I could show my students Latin and Greek sentences in a
>> traditional sentence diagram. Is there some way to rotate and underline
>> words quickly and easily?
>
> Oy. That's not Greek. But that's gonna be tough.
>
> I think I'd start by creating the diagram with line segments, then add
> individual text boxes where they belong in the diagram.
>
> Rotating individual words within sentences is impossible, and getting the
> underlines of underlined individual lines to match up correctly would be a
> nightmare. For the short sentences. Worse for the rest.
>
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