genaa is a command line tool for generating ASCII Art.

Install genaa by using pip.

pip install genaa

Now genaa is supporting only Python 3.3.

Now genaa can only generate a box:

$ genaa box --text Hello!
+--------+
| Hello! |
+--------+

Above example is as one of simple command line tools. But, genaa usually behave as a filter command, like this:

$ echo -en 'Hello world!\nThis is genaa' | genaa box
+---------------+
| Hello world!  |
| This is genaa |
+---------------+

You can specify these arguments to genaa box:

-h, --help            show this help message and exit
-t TEXT, --text TEXT  Passing text by argument into box
-W WIDTH, --width WIDTH
-H HEIGHT, --height HEIGHT
-s {ccomment,ascii,hash,simple}, --style {ccomment,ascii,hash,simple}

By default, genaa box command render the box with automatically specified width/height. But, you can specify these width and height of the box manually, like this:

$ echo -en 'Hello world!\nThis is genaa' | genaa box --width=20 --height=3
+----------------------+
| Hello world!         |
| This is genaa        |
|                      |
+----------------------+

This example is using hash style which is used as comment block in Python:

$ echo -en 'Hello world!\nThis is genaa' | genaa box --style=hash
#################
# Hello world!  #
# This is genaa #
#################

genaa box command put the text at the left side of the box. It also supports putting the text on center and right:

genaa box --align=center --text=Hello --width=20
+----------------------+
|        Hello         |
+----------------------+