Showlabels

Put the names of \labels and other commands into the margins of a draft document.

Version 1.9.3, 2025 August 20; https://purl.org/nxg/dist/showlabels.

This class option helps you keep track of all the labels in your documents, by putting the name of the new label into the margin whenever either the \label command is used, or an equation is automatically numbered. It is compatible with the amsmath and hyperref packages.

It is similar to, but does a little more than, the showkeys package.

You invoke this package with the command \usepackage{showlabels} in the preamble. You can control where the labels appear – in the margins or in the interline gaps – and you can change the appearance of the formatted labels to some extent.

As well, you can have the arguments to other commands besides \label displayed. This is fairly obviously useful for the \cite command, but it can be useful for \ref or \begin as well.

Links:

• Canonical software home page: https://purl.org/nxg/dist/showlabels (please use this URL rather than the URL it redirects to).

• On CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/showlabels

• The source code for the package is maintained at heptapod.host, where there is an issue tracker. Or you can just mail me.

This work is Copyright 1999, 2001-09, 2013-22, 2025, Norman Gray, and may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public Licence, either version 1.3c of this licence or (at your option) any later version. See the distributed file lppl.txt for details.

For more information, see showlabels.html in the distribution.

CTAN upload info

• Name: showlabels
  • Version: 1.9.3
  • Maintainer: gray@nxg.name
  • Summary: Put the names of \labels and other commands into the margins of a draft document.
  • CTAN directory: /macros/latex/contrib/showlabels
  • Licence: LPPL 1.3c
  • Home page: https://purl.org/nxg/dist/showlabels
  • Bug tracker: https://heptapod.host/nxg/showlabels/-/issues
  • Repository: https://heptapod.host/nxg/showlabels

Norman Gray https://nxg.me.uk