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 .