There’s a growing number of trackers and directives, as well as \show…
commands. I’m sure there are some that I could/should use and just don’t
know, and there’s just too much to try.
Which are your hidden gems or favourite tools?
I’ll start:
\showlayout: inserts 4 pages of layout dimensions
\showmakeup: values of many details, e.g. distances and kerning
\showgrid: line grid for grid mode
\showframe: all frames
\showboxes: draw frames around a few areas
\showsetups: list of variables
\showbodyfont: variants of tha active font family
\showbodyfontenvironment: values of relative sizes
\showsymbolset[name]: list of symbols
\showstruts
\showcolor, \showcolorcomponents
\showpalet, \comparepalet
\showexternalfigures
\showtrackers – or "context --trackers"
\showdirectives – or "context --directives"
Trackers:
builders.hpack.overflow – mark under-/overfull hboxes
hyphenation.applied.visualize – show hyphenation
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Trackers/typesetters.suspects
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Trackers/visualizers.justification
Directives:
pdfview.method=auto (in contextcnf.lua) to change --autopdf default
logs.errors=* – make warnings errors(?)
logs.quitonerror=* – stop at every error
references.bookmarks.preroll – expand(?) macros in bookmarks
backend.pdf.nounicode=X – obfuscate text
Let’s fill in and complete
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Trackers
(the list was made in 2012 and is quite outdated)
Hraban
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