How to put a long part of text in a box in LaTeX?

In this tutorial, you will learn how to put a long part of text in a box in LaTeX.

You can use the \parbox{<width>}{<text>} command to put some text into a box of any width, then you can use the \fbox{} command to get a frame around the text, like this.

\fbox{\parbox{<width>}{<text>}}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\noindent\fbox{\parbox{10cm}{\lipsum[1]}}

\noindent\fbox{\parbox{3in}{\lipsum[1]}}

\noindent\fbox{\parbox{\textwidth}{\lipsum[1]}}

\end{document}

Output:

Put a long part of text in a box with minipage

You can also use the minipage environment to put some text into a box. Like this.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\fbox{
\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
    \lipsum[1]
\end{minipage}
}

\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\fbox{
    \begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth}
        \lipsum[1][1-6]
    \end{minipage}
    }
    \fbox{
    \begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth}
        \lipsum[1][1-6]
    \end{minipage}
    }
\end{minipage}

\end{document}

Output: