name texdef
category Package
revision 26420
shortdesc Display the definitions of TeX commands.
longdesc The (Perl) script displays the definition of (La)TeX command
longdesc sequences/macros. Various options allow the selection of the
longdesc used class and package files and other things which can have
longdesc influence on the definition (before/after the preamble, inside
longdesc an environment, ...). The script creates a temporary TeX file
longdesc which is then compiled using (La)TeX to find the '\meaning' of
longdesc the command sequence. The result is formatted and presented to
longdesc the user. Length or number command sequences (dimensions,
longdesc \char..., count registers, ...) are recognized and the
longdesc contained value is also shown (using \the). Special definitions
longdesc like protected macros are also recognized and the underlying
longdesc macros are shown as well. The script will show plain TeX
longdesc definitions by default. LaTeX and ConTeXt are supported,
longdesc including flavours (pdf(la)tex, lua(la)tex, xe(la)tex, ...).
longdesc The flavour can be selected using an command line option or
longdesc over the script name: latexdef will use LaTeX as default, etc.
depend texdef.ARCH
runfiles size=8
 texmf-dist/scripts/texdef/texdef.pl
catalogue-ctan /support/texdef
catalogue-date 2014-02-26 23:03:13 +0100
catalogue-license gpl3
catalogue-version 1.7b