How to add horizontal line in between text lines

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Hello, I’m trying to write a document which I will print out and cut each line of text into its own strip. For that I would like to add short lines at the beginning and end of the page in between each line to make it easy to line up to a paper cutter and cut it straight.

I’ve tried a few things and gotten it to work with underlines to have a thin line all the way across:

#set text(size: 2em, spacing: 1em)
#set par(leading: 1em, justify: true)
#show text: it => {
  underline(it, extent: 20pt, offset: 0.5em, stroke: 0.1pt)
}

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However, I haven’t gotten far when trying to only have them at the start and end of each line. I thought par.line could be used, but that isn’t doing anything in the show rule I tried:

#set text(size: 2em, spacing: 1em)
#set par(leading: 1em, justify: true)
#show par.line: it => {
  it
  line(length: 100%)
}

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I appreciate any help :)

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Without knowing more about your specific use-case, I’m not sure if this even helps you. It uses tiling, line, and stroke options.
An example, even if it’s hand-drawn, would be great.

It’s possible to add lines to the entire page like this:

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#set text(20pt) //Adjust to your desired text size

#let stroke = (paint: gray, thickness: .1mm, dash: "loosely-dashed")
#let size = 20pt * 1.3
#set page(
  paper: "a6",
  fill: tiling(
    size: (10cm, size),
    line(
      stroke: stroke,
      length: 100%
    )
  )
)

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This was modified from the graph paper snippet.

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Thank you for the help, especially with the tiling, I was able to get what I wanted with that as the starting point:

#let text-size = 0.4cm
#set text(top-edge: 0.2cm, bottom-edge: -0.2cm)
#let par-leading = 0.3cm
#set text(size: text-size, spacing: 10pt)
#set par(leading: par-leading, justify: true)
#let stroke = (paint: gray, thickness: .1mm, dash: "loosely-dashed")
#let size = 0.7cm
#set page(
  margin: (top: 2.38cm),
  fill: tiling(
    size: (18cm, size),
    line(
      stroke: stroke,
      length: 15%
    )
  )
)


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There are lots of hard-coded values to line everything up, which I’m sure could be improved, but this is good enough for my use case.