CTAN has a new package: vwcol - ctan-ann

24 Jun 2008


      This package has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at 
your favorite mirror.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: vwcol
Author's name: Will Robertson
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/vwcol
Summary description: Multicols with variable width
License type: lppl
Announcement text: 
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This package provides a crude environment
called 'vwcol'for typesetting multicolumn
paragraph text of various column widths on
a single page.
For example,
documentclass{article}
usepackage{lipsum}
egin{document}
egin{vwcol}[widths={0.3,0.2,0.5}]
  lipsum[1]
end{vwcol}
end{document}
Note again that only paragraph text is
supported at present.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/vwcol
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/vwcol
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