Difference between revisions of "Visual Debugging"

Revision as of 02:44, 18 July 2005

There's a whole lot of commands that help you analyzing and debugging your ConTeXt documents. Most of them start with \show... or \\trace...:

\showlayout : add four pages that show margins, layout sizes etc.

\showgrid : make line grid visible

\showsetups : type a list of all defined sizes (variables) and their values

\tracemathtrue : show the layout boxes for left, middle, or right-aligned formulas.

\showbodyfont : actual bodyfont family with all variants

\showbodyfontenvironment : draws a table that shows which point sizes match the relative sizes

\showsymbolset[symbolset name] : shows all the symbols within a given symbol set

\showcharacters : list of available chars of actual bodyfont encoding

\showmathcharacters : list of all the available math (non-alphabetical) characters available in math, now including all the AMS characters

\showaccents : shows A-Z and a-z with all available accents

\showstruts : make invisible characters visible

\showfontstrip : the current typeface combination, with roman, sans, math, and teletype families visualised, with x-heights

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 < [[Inside ConTeXt]] | [[Visuals]] >
-There's a whole lot of commands that help you analyzing and debugging your ConTeXt documents. Most of them start with <cmd>show...</cmd>:
+There's a whole lot of commands that help you analyzing and debugging your ConTeXt documents. Most of them start with <cmd>show...</cmd> or <cmd>\trace...</cmd>:
 ==[[Layout]]==
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 <cmd>showsetups</cmd> : type a list of all defined sizes (variables) and their values
+<cmd>tracemathtrue</cmd> : show the layout boxes for left, middle, or right-aligned formulas.
 ==[[Fonts]] and Type==