Bah. It's trivially easy if your output is simple enough. For plain text, just use blank lines to separate paragraphs, and put the following line at the beginning of your output: 
.LP
Then, run your output through the following program: (By default, it will output PostScript in 10-point Times Roman font. Of course, fonts and sizes can also be easily changed.) 
groff -ms

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Was that so hard? But wait, there's more...

If you're interested in putting a box around a paragraph: 

.B1
paragraph text
.B2

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And in general, lines and boxes are easily created using the pic preprocessor. It's automatically invoked by providing the -p option to groff. A simple example: 
.PS
box "boxed text"; arrow; circle "circled text"
.PE

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Don't be afraid.

buckaduck

In reply to Re: Re: Producing documents using Perl by buckaduck
in thread Producing documents using Perl by fx

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