Suggestions for background
The following packages have something in common with the package background. The packages are ordered in decreasing similarity.
- xwatermark: Graphics and text watermarks on selected pages
- aeb-tilebg: AeB Tiling Backgrounds
- gradback: Gradient backgrounds for dvips output
- gridpapers: Graph paper backgrounds and color schemes
- pagegrid: Print page grid in background
- magicwatermark: An easy and flexible way to set watermarks
- fancytabs: Fancy page border tabs
- gradientframe: Simple gradient frames around objects
- notes: Mark sections of a document
- sectionbox: Create fancy boxed ((sub)sub)sections
- shadowtext: Produce text with a shadow behind it
- shadow: Shadow boxes
- fancypar: Decoration of individual paragraphs
- froufrou: Fancy section separators
- psboxit: Enables one to put a PostScript drawing behind a TeX box
- contour: Print a coloured contour around text
- longfbox: Draw framed boxes with standard CSS attributes that can break over multiple pages
- parselines: Apply a macro to each line of an environment
- shadbox: Shade the background of any box
- thmbox: Decorate theorem statements
- crbox: Boxes with crossed corners
- ghab: Typeset ghab boxes in LaTeX
- roundbox: Round boxes in LaTeX
- tram: Typeset tram boxes in LaTeX
- sectionbreak: LaTeX support for section breaks
- proofread: Commands for inserting annotations
- shadethm: Theorem environments that are shaded
- decorule: Decorative swelled rule using font character
- bidipagegrid: Bidi-aware page grid in background
- boites: Boxes that may break across pages
- framed: Framed or shaded regions that can break across pages