Re: \showreferences

Hans Hagen via ntg-context <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 3/30/2026 2:13 AM, Jim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried putting
>          \showreferences
> in a document which has lots of internal references (and a number of
> external ones), but I see no difference in the new PDF (although the PDF
> internals changed a bit, there were no visible differences according to the
> "diffpdf" program).
> 
> I see nothing in the .log file, the terminal output, or even the .tuc file.
> 
> In .../tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/strc-ref.mklx I see
>          \permanent\protected\def\showreferences{\enabletrackers[nodes.references.show,nodes.destinations.show]}
> so I don't get the feeling I needed to give it some optional arguments.
> 
> I tried it in the preamble.  I tried it in the body of the document.
>          
> There is no \showreferences wiki page.  Back in 2015 there were 3 messages
> about this in the mailing list, with someone claiming it did what he
> wanted.  So I tried 'context --luatex' to see if MkIV would give me
> something... but apparently nothing.
> 
> So... can someone tell me how to make \showreferences do something visible?
> (Or maybe if it is doing something, where I can see this?)

probably got lost when we went to mkxl ... i'll send you a patch to test 
(few lines added)

Hans

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