.TH bban 1 "June 30, 2012"

.LO 1

.SH NAME
.B bban
\- display an ASCII art banner text

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B bban
.I [message]

.SH OPTIONS
Usage: bban [-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx] textarg [-] [...]
[-] interpolate from stdin into command line.
-w#   (Width) The page width is set to #.
-i#   (Indent) # extra blanks are left-inserted into each output line.
-b#   (Blank lines) # extra blank lines will be output before the text
-lrc  (Left, Right, Centered) ;justification of output
-jo   (Jammed,Open) -j) omit normal 1-space border on top & left
-tv   (Tall,Vertically normal)
-fh   (Fat,Horizontally normal)
-ms   (Mark string,Self) -m) next input arg. forms cyclic banner chars
-s) each text argument character used in forming itself.
-kd   (marK,Default mark) use the text argument string to mark itself
-au   (Asis,Uppercase) affect marking characters from -s or -k\n
-pn   (Positive,Negative)
-ex   (Echo,eXpand)
-g    (Global)
-q    (Quit)
The default flag settings are: -lovhsupxw120i0b0\n
bban -jm # text (Gives results similar to the banner command)
bban -m \\ EST -b-8ils EST \n
bban -jmn NUTS <12 underscores> -tfow72 ____NUTS____ -w72 <12 more>'
bban -j LO VE | bban -j -

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B bban
takes a string as argument and outputs it as a large ASCII art banner text.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR banner (1)
.BR sysvbanner (1)
.BR figlet (1)
.BR ascii (7)