Re: [Groff] Boxing text.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Anonymous,

> 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.

The B1 and B2 macros seem to be from the mm macro set yet you aren't
stating they should be loaded.

    $ printf '.B1\nfoo\n.br\nbar\nxyzzy\n.B2\n' |
    > groff -Tascii -mm |
    > cat -s

                                       - 1 -

           +-----------------------------------------------------------+
           |foo                                                        |
           +bar-xyzzy--------------------------------------------------+

    $ 

Cheers, Ralph.