I take it you actually want an output that looks as if it were produced by a word processor, rather than fancy looking ASCII art. If so, Perl forms may not be what you want.

You could consider generating an HTML document rather than plain text. There are several CPAN modules to help you do this. Such an approach would give you all but page numbers.

Taking things a step further, you might want to convert the HTML file to LaTeX (or generate LaTeX directly if you know how to).

If fancy ASCII is what you want, I'd advice against going for Perl forms, but rather use a modern template toolkit such as Text::Template. It allows to separate code from presentation which is a better approach than mixing the two IMHO.

Hope this helps, -gjb-

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