Eyelashes (particles along edges?)

I’m trying to do some eyelashes with the 2.46 particle system.
For this, I wanted to create hair particles along some edges, but the hair system only lets me to put particles on the vertices (discontinous) or on the faces (not lineal).
I’ve looked in Google and in the forum, but I’ve been not able to find a solution. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.

How about making a copy of the edges you want to use and then sub0devided them to get more verts. You can then have the particles emitted just from the copied edges using a vertex group.

It seems a good idea, I’m going to try it.
Many thanks!!!