On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 08:08:33PM -0400, Anonymous wrote: > Subject: simply trying to put a box around text > > I found a rough example out in the wild for how to box text using > groff. This is my attempt to make it work: > > ===8<----------------------------------------- > #!/bin/bash > > cat <<EOF | pic |groff -Tascii | sed '/^$/d' > .B1 > &client > &address1 > &address2 > &address3 > .B2 > EOF > ===8<----------------------------------------- > > Any ideas why the text does not end up inside a box? Piping the text > through "pic" was a guess.. but it does not make a difference either > way.
try ... cat <<EOF | pic |groff -Tascii -mm | sed '/^$/d' .B1 &client &address1 &address2 &address3 .sp .B2 EOF -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com
