This is a strange problem; maybe I'm missing something simple. I'm displaying multiline text in a text box, and I'm setting the width of the box via << set width(700). The weird part is that the length of the text box doesn't adjust for the new width. In other words I'm getting too much white space below the text.
txt1 = "\["Boiler plate" originally referred to the sheet steel used to make boilers.
txt2 = "\[In contractual law, the term "boilerplate language" describes the parts of a contract that are considered standard.
In computer programming, boilerplate is the sections of code that have to be included in many places with little or no alteration. Such boilerplate is particularly salient when the programmer must include a lot of code for minimal functionality. The need for boilerplate can be reduced through high-level mechanisms.