The tcolorbox Package

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Abstract

tcolorbox provides an environment for colored and framed text boxes with a heading line. Optionally, such a box can be split in an upper and a lower part. The package tcolorbox can be used for the setting of LaTeX examples where one part of the box displays the source code and the other part shows the output. Another common use case is the setting of theorems. The package supports saving and reuse of source code and text parts.

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% An example with the tcolorbox package, from the package documentation:
% http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tcolorbox
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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

\usepackage{tcolorbox}

\title{Package Example: tcolorbox}
\author{writeLaTeX}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{tcolorbox}[colback=red!5!white,colframe=red!75!black,title=My Heading]
This is a \textbf{tcolorbox}.
\tcblower
Here, you see the lower part of the box.
\end{tcolorbox}

\end{document}