CTAN has a new package: minibox
Date: April 22, 2009 8:53:34 AM CEST
This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your local mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: minibox
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/minibox/
Summary description: A simple type of box for LaTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
A small package to provide a convenient input syntax for boxes that don't break their text over lines automatically, but do allow manual lines breaks, and that shrink to the natural width of the maximum line width. \minibox{Some\\ broken\\ text} \minibox[c]{Centred\\ broken\\ text}
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minibox/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/minibox (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
A small package to provide a convenient input syntax for boxes that don't break their text over lines automatically, but do allow manual lines breaks, and that shrink to the natural width of the maximum line width. \minibox{Some\\ broken\\ text} \minibox[c]{Centred\\ broken\\ text}
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minibox/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/minibox (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
minibox – A simple type of box for LaTeX
This small package provides a convenient input syntax for boxes that don't break their text over lines automatically, but do allow manual line breaks. The boxes shrink to the natural width of the longest line they contain.
Package | minibox |
Version | 0.2a |
Copyright | 2009 Will Robertson |
Maintainer | Will Robertson |