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I'm new to LaTeX, so please excuse me if this is something basic, but I've been reading the "Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX", and Googling this with no success.

I have larger chunks of text I want to draw a ruled box around. It could be anything from 1 sentence to a few paragraphs.

\framebox seems like it should do what I want, but everything ends up on one line, and I don't understand how to apply \raisebox to this problem, if in fact this is the correct solution.

(I'm using TeXShop 4.42 )

Any help appreciated.

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  • There are many packages such as tcolorbox, mdframed and so on. True, they may be somewhat an overkill for just drawing a box, but they show what is possible.
    – user194703
    Oct 11, 2019 at 3:45
  • Thank you @Schrödinger'scat Just started playing with tcolorbox and it's perfect. Does exactly what I want with minimum fuss. If you post as an answer, I can accept it as official.
    – nedlud
    Oct 11, 2019 at 4:23
  • @nedlud When you accept a response, it does not make it an official response. It simply says that you think this answer is the best answer to your problem. tex.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers
    – AndréC
    Oct 11, 2019 at 5:46
  • \noindent\fbox{\parbox{\dimexpr \linewidth-2\fboxsep-2\fboxrule}{...}} will also work.
    – John Kormylo
    Oct 11, 2019 at 14:26
  • Many of the boxes of this answer works enclosing a \parbox, as suggested, or a minipage, although for something more complex, just read the tcolorbox manual.
    – Fran
    Oct 13, 2019 at 20:34

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tcolorbox is a neat package for that. 

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[
showframe,%shows the page's frame
a6paper%suit to your needs
]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}%arbitrary text
\usepackage{tcolorbox}

%https://osl.ugr.es/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox/tcolorbox.pdf
\tcbuselibrary{breakable}
\tcbset{%any default parameters
  width=0.7\textwidth,
  halign=justify,
  center,
  breakable,
  colback=white    
}

\begin{document}

\vspace*{\fill} % for vertical centering 1/3

\begin{tcolorbox}
  \lipsum[1][1-2]%arbitrary paragrah
\end{tcolorbox}

\vspace*{\fill}% for vertical centering 2/3
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/511504/112708 % Why? Still unresolved
\vspace{\baselineskip}% for vertical centering 3/3

\newpage
\begin{tcolorbox}
  \lipsum[1] % text span multiple pages thanks to breakable
\end{tcolorbox}

\end{document}

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For simple types of boxes, please try with framed.sty or mdframed.sty packages, these are having many types of boxes, and the MWE is

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum,framed}

\begin{document}

\begin{framed}
\lipsum[1-4]
\end{framed}

\end{document}

If you need boxes with complex design, then go with tcolorbox and tikz...

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