# Installer opendetex avec Homebrew, MacPorts

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

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:opendetex
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install opendetex
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install opendetex
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: tex/opendetex/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:opendetex
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.8.11
- **Résumé source:** Tool to strip TeX or LaTeX commands from documents
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- delatex (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 2.8.11
## Historique du projet et usages

OpenDetex is the maintained successor line of DeTeX, a utility that strips TeX and LaTeX markup from source documents to produce readable plain text. It preserves the old tool's package-nerd charm: a focused lexer-style command-line program with decades of TeX workflow inertia behind it.

### Historique du projet

Daniel Trinkle's DeTeX originated at Purdue University and was distributed from his personal academic page. Trinkle's page points users to OpenDetex as the more modern derivative, and CTAN marks the original `detex` package as retired in favor of Piotr Kubowicz's OpenDetex.

### Historique d'adoption

OpenDetex's adoption is mostly through TeX and Unix packaging channels rather than a large application ecosystem. It appears in Homebrew and MacPorts as `opendetex`, while manual pages in Linux distributions preserve the authorship chain from Trinkle's original program to Kubowicz's maintenance.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users run the command-line program over TeX or LaTeX sources when they need approximate plain text for indexing, spell checking, word counting, or review workflows. The tool intentionally removes commands rather than trying to typeset or fully understand a TeX document.

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

OpenDetex matters because it is a tiny maintenance fork that kept a useful academic Unix utility alive after the original author retired it. Its packaging story is the familiar one for old document-processing tools: the interface remains small, but users value it because it fits cleanly into shell pipelines.

### Chronologie

- 2004: Daniel Trinkle's DeTeX page was last modified and later directed users to OpenDetex.
- OpenDetex was created from DeTeX 2.8 by Piotr Kubowicz, according to the project README.

### Related projects

- OpenDetex is directly descended from DeTeX and sits near other TeX-adjacent text extraction tools, but it keeps the narrower goal of removing TeX constructs instead of converting documents through a full typesetting or markup conversion pipeline.

### Sources

- <https://ctan.org/pkg/detex>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/opendetex>
- <https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex>
- <https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex/blob/master/README>
- <https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/texlive-bin/detex.1.en>
- <https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/detex/>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- MacPorts - opendetex: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: tex/opendetex/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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