CTAN has a new package: vwcol

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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}
\begin{document}
\begin{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
(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 .