# opendetex を Homebrew, MacPorts でインストール

opendetex のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

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

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install opendetex
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install opendetex
```

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

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:opendetex
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 2.8.11
- **ソース概要:** Tool to strip TeX or LaTeX commands from documents
- **ホームページ:** <https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/pkubowicz/opendetex>
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- delatex (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 2.8.11
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

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.

### プロジェクトの歴史

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.

### 採用の歴史

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.

### 使われ方

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.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

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.

### タイムライン

- 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.

### ソース

- <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/>


## セキュリティノート

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger リスク:** グリーン / 低
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## 他のパッケージマネージャ記録

- 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)


## ソース

- 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