# Installer asciitex avec Homebrew

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de asciitex pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:asciitex
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install asciitex
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:asciitex
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.21
- **Résumé source:** Generate ASCII-art representations of mathematical equations
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://asciitex.sourceforge.net/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- asciiTeX (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 0.21
## Historique du projet et usages

asciiTeX is an ASCII equation renderer for producing plain-text mathematical notation with LaTeX-like syntax. It is historically interesting as a small scientific/terminal utility for email, source comments, and other contexts where rendered images or Unicode math are inconvenient.

### Historique du projet

The official homepage describes asciiTeX as an ASCII equation renderer released under the GPL. It says the project is a fork of eqascii, adding new features and many bug fixes, and it documents both a GTK graphical interface and a command-line program named `asciiTeX`.

The same official page now carries a maintenance note saying asciiTeX is not maintained and points users to two successor paths: a fork at larseggert/asciiTeX and the original author's newer libtexprintf/utftex work for monospace TeX-like math formatting with Unicode support.

### Historique d'adoption

asciiTeX appears to have stayed niche: the input facts list only Homebrew packaging, and the official site focuses on SourceForge downloads, build-from-source instructions, and a Windows installer. Its adoption story is therefore less about ecosystem ubiquity and more about preserving a small utility for ASCII math rendering.

### Modes d'utilisation

The command-line form accepts equations directly or from a file: `asciiTeX [-v] [-h] [-f file] [-ll line-length] [equation]`. It supports LaTeX-like constructs such as fractions, superscripts, subscripts, roots, sums, products, integrals, braces, arrows, limits, and overlines, then emits fixed-width ASCII output.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

asciiTeX is a good example of the long tail in package managers: a dormant SourceForge-era C/GTK utility remains useful enough to package because it solves a specific text-only problem and has no modern service dependency.

### Chronologie

- SourceForge era: asciiTeX published as a GPL fork of eqascii with command-line and GTK interfaces.
- Current official homepage: project marked unmaintained and successor/fork links documented.

### Related projects

- eqascii is the project asciiTeX forked from.
- larseggert/asciiTeX is listed by the official homepage as an updated fork.
- libtexprintf and utftex are listed by the original author as newer alternatives.

### Sources

- <https://asciitex.sourceforge.net/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/p/asciitex/code/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/asciitex/files/>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/asciitex.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/asciitex.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph