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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/logbox/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/logbox/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e0b43caf5c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/logbox/README @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Package: logbox - e-TeX showbox facilities (FC) +------------------------------------------------------------- +logbox provides facilities to display the contents of boxes in +the log file or print them with their dimensions in the final +document. + +For "exploration purpose". + +The TeX primitive \showbox stops the compilation. +Looking at the box contents requires to set the \showboxbreadth +and \showboxdepth parameters accordingly. + +logbox.sty sets those parameters, the \interactionmode is temporarily +set so that the compilation don't stop and the box description can +finally be explored in the .log file. + +As a tracing command, \logbox also works in harmony with the tracing +parameter: \tracingoutput. + + +Commands provided: + +\logbox : TeX \showbox without stop in the compilation + + \showboxbreadth >= 10 + + \showboxdepth >= 10 + +\dimbox : typeset the type (hbox, vbox or void) of the box + and its dimensions in the document. + +\viewbox : \dimbox + \logbox +\viewbox* : \dimbox + \logbox + inserts the box in the document + +\Viewbox : same as \viewbox but the argument is the box contents + rather than the box register. + +\ShowGroups : e-TeX \showgroups without stop in the compilation. + +\ShowLists : e-TeX \showlists without stop in the compilation. + +\ShowIfs : e-TeX \showifs without stop in the compilation. + + + +Copyright (C) 2011 by FC ------------------------------------ |