Adding a border around text

"Andrew Whitworth" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
I have a few templates on Wikibooks that are designed to show some
text with a border around it or with a different background color, to
set it apart from the rest of the text. This is used for Examples,
Questions, Sidenotes, Vignettes, etc. None of the templates we have
now seem to generate borders/background colors in generated PDF files
or printed books. Is there a way to offset text like this from normal
paragraph text? If not, can one be added?

--Andrew Whitworth
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