Command/showmakeup

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\showmakeup

Summary

The command \showmakeup typesets debug typeset information

Settings

\showmakeup[...]
[...]makeup reset boxes all hbox vbox vtop kern glue penalty fontkern strut whatsit glyph simple simplehbox simplevbox simplevtop user math italic origin discretionary expansion line space depth

OptionExplanation
makeup a list shortcut for page layout visualisation
boxes a shortcut for box composition
all a shortcut for most of the useful options

Description

Produces extra overlay layers with detailed information about 'invisible' items on the typeset page (skips, glues, whatsits et cetera).

Those layers can be turned on and off in Adobe Reader to improve readability.


Bug report: some of the argument options in this list do not match up with current lmtx nor mkiv, and the argument is actually a commalist instead of a single value (See: Bug List)


Examples

Example 1

\setuppapersize[A7,landscape]
\showmakeup
\starttext
asdf
\stoptext

Notes

See also

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