Page Layout ⇒ New command "random"

[jhapk]

I want to have a command called "random". I wrote something like this

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\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{mwe}
\newcommand{\random}[1]{\vspace{0.2in}{#1}\vspace{0.2in}}
\begin{document}

This is my text
\random{\blindtext}
and then my text continues

\end{document}

The idea of random is that it should have equal spacing from the text above and the text below wherever I put it. how should I can do that? my code is not working It will be awesome if I can have a horizontal line above and below the random text.

[jhapk]

This works

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\newcommand{\random}[1]{\noindent\rule{\textwidth}{0.4pt}\newline{#1}\newline\noindent\rule{\textwidth}{\
0.4pt}\vspace{0.2in}}

[Johannes_B]

Hi,

what are you trying to achieve? Packages like tcolorbox or mdframed can do that for you.
If you don't want to use those, i suggest to define an environment instead of a command. What happens with pagebreaks?

[jhapk]

oh! wow!! these two packages are awesome. thanks a lot.