Visual Debugging

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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 \show...:

Layout

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

\showmakeup : ?

\showframe : ?

\showgrid : make line grid visible

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


Fonts and Type

\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

Colors and Graphics

\showcolor : see Colors

\showcolorgroup :

\showpalet :

\showexternalfigures :


Interaction

\showfields :