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Re: [Groff] <OK> (no subject)
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Mike Bianchi |
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Re: [Groff] <OK> (no subject) |
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Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:58:46 -0400 |
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 08:08:33PM -0400, Anonymous wrote:
> Subject: simply trying to put a box around text
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> I found a rough example out in the wild for how to box text using
> groff. This is my attempt to make it work:
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> ===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
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