CTAN update: lua-visual-debug
Date: December 30, 2025 1:39:10 PM CET
Subject: CTAN update: lua-visual-debug
Udi Fogiel submitted an update to the
lua-visual-debug
package.
Version number: 1.0 2025-12-29
License type: mit
Summary description: Visual debugging with LuaLaTeX
Announcement text:
* The markers are now confgurable (colors, opacity, show/not show) * Marking boxes around glyphs is possible (not enabled by default). * In LuaLaTeX the pre_shipout_filter callback is now used instead of atbegshi to avoid order problems. * Added an OpTeX package.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/lua-visual-debug More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lua-visual-debug
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
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* The markers are now confgurable (colors, opacity, show/not show) * Marking boxes around glyphs is possible (not enabled by default). * In LuaLaTeX the pre_shipout_filter callback is now used instead of atbegshi to avoid order problems. * Added an OpTeX package.
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/luatex/generic/lua-visual-debug More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lua-visual-debug
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
lua-visual-debug – Visual debugging with LuaLaTeX
The package uses lua code to provide visible indications of boxes, glues, kerns and penalties in the PDF output.
The package is known to work in LaTeX and Plain TeX documents.
| Package | lua-visual-debug |
| Version | 1.0 2025-12-29 |
| Copyright | 2012–2023 Patrick Gundlach 2025 Udi Fogiel |
| Maintainer | Udi Fogiel Patrick Gundlach (inactive) |