CTAN has a new package: fancypar

[CTAN Announcements]

This should within a day be at your local mirror.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: The fancypar package
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Gonzalo Medina
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/fancypar
Summary description: Predefined fancy styles that can be applied to text paragraphs.
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This package offers five predefined decorative styles for individual text 
paragraphs of a document; the user can easily control the styles’ 
attributes using the key-value mechanism. The package also allows the 
creation of new fancy designs for text paragrpahs.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancypar
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/fancypar
(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 .