Suggestions for makebox
The following packages have something in common with the package makebox. The packages are ordered in decreasing similarity.
- fitbox: Fit graphics on a page
- pbox: A variable-width \parbox command
- boxedminipage: Framed minipages of a specified total width (text and frame combined)
- collectbox: Collect and process macro arguments as boxes
- dashbox: Draw dashed boxes
- eqparbox: Create equal-widthed parboxes
- efbox: Extension of \fbox, with controllable frames and colours
- fbox: Extended \fbox macro from standard LaTeX
- fancybox: Variants of \fbox and other games with boxes
- minibox: A simple type of box for LaTeX
- realboxes: Variants of common box-commands that read their content as real box and not as macro argument
- varwidth: A variable-width minipage
- verbatimbox: Deposit verbatim text in a box
- xcoffins: Rich boxed material for LaTeX 3
- xsavebox: Saveboxes for repeating content without code replication, based on PDF Form XObjects
- framed: Framed or shaded regions that can break across pages
- mdframed: Framed environments that can split at page boundaries
- tcolorbox: Coloured boxes, for LaTeX examples and theorems, etc.
- alertmessage: Alert messages for LaTeX
- grabbox: Read an argument into a box and execute the code afterwards
- lroundrect: LaTeX macros for utilizing the roundrect METAPOST routines
- nccboxes: Elaborate box commands
- shadbox: Shade the background of any box
- postit: A LaTeX package for displaying Post-it notes
- ktbox: Framework for semantic color, structured highlighting, and scholarly communication
- ghab: Typeset ghab boxes in LaTeX
- crbox: Boxes with crossed corners
- roundbox: Round boxes in LaTeX
- tram: Typeset tram boxes in LaTeX
- creationboites: Macros to create simple tcolorbox with some customizations
- ascmac: Boxes and picture macros with Japanese vertical writing support