CTAN has a new package: minibox

[CTAN announcements (Jim Hefferon, tug.ctan.org)]

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: 
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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}
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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 .