From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Henri <henrimenke@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Command line tool for macro definitions
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:42:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef373165-788a-2482-25fe-a119fd83d8aa@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1515891393.13359.11.camel@gmail.com>
On 1/14/2018 1:56 AM, Henri wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> For TeX/LaTeX users there is the neat command line tool `texdef` with
> which you can show the definition of a macro. Here an example:
>
> $ texdef -t latex section
>
> \section:
> \long macro:->\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@ }{-3.5ex \@plus -1ex
> \@minus -.2ex}{2.3ex \@plus .2ex}{\normalfont \Large \bfseries }
>
> Is there something similar for ConTeXt? It is quite tedious to either
> grep the full source or setup an extra dummy document to use \show or
> \meaning.
i must admit that i never use \show for that ... anyhow, i'll provide
context --extra=meaning --once --pattern=*paper*
context --extra=meaning --once setuplayout
context --extra=meaning --once setup_layout
in the next beta
Hans
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