texshow(1)

texshow1

Context command and parameter reference

Usage

texshow [OPTION] [COMMAND] [LANGUAGE]

Overview

texshow uses perl(1) and PerlTk (see Tk(3pm)) to show a overview of the commands and parameters of those. In the Tk window you can search for a command and by switching the interface, you can see the equivalent in another interface language.

COMMAND is a ConTeXt command to search for in the database. Note that Plain TeX commands are not (yet) in this database although they can be used in ConTeXt source files.

LANGUAGE can be one of cz (Czech), de (German), en (US-English) or nl (Dutch). The default language is English.

You can also set the interface language with the --interface switch.

Bindings

Most keyboard events are bound to the search widget, with the exception of <Page Up> (aka <Prior>) and <Page Down> (aka <Next>). <Control-q>, <Control-x>, and <Alt-F4> quit the application.

Options

--help

Print a brief syntax summary

--interface=LANGUAGE

Primary interface language. See DESCRIPTION for LANGUAGE options.

Files

TEXMF/tex/context/interface/cont-XX.xml

The database file. At this writing, XX can be one of cz (Czech), de (German), en (English), fr (French), it (Italian), nl (Dutch), or ro (Romanian). Which file is used is determined by the LANGUAGE specified on the command line.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0

--help since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --interface since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Author

This version of texshow was written by Taco Hoekwater <[email protected]>.

This manpage was written by Tobias Burnus <[email protected]> and C.M. Connelly <[email protected]>.

texshow is part of ConTeXt and is available from <http://www.pragma-ade.com/pragma-ade/>.

From context 2008.05.21-1 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.