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brew install latexml

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overview

Package summary

LaTeX to XML/HTML/MathML Converter

Project links

Commands and aliases

latexml
latexmlc
latexmlfind
latexmlmath
latexmlpost

history

Project history and usage

LaTeXML is a public-domain Perl toolchain for translating TeX and LaTeX sources into structured XML and downstream formats such as HTML, EPUB, JATS, TEI, and MathML. Its package-manager identity is unusually tied to digital-math publishing rather than ordinary document rendering: it tries to preserve enough semantic structure for web presentation, search, accessibility, and corpus processing.

Project history

Bruce R. Miller developed LaTeXML at NIST for the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, where a large body of LaTeX-authored mathematical content needed a web-oriented representation. The project later moved into a public GitHub workflow under the brucemiller/LaTeXML repository, with Deyan Ginev also listed as an author in the repository metadata.

The 2014 paper 'LaTeXML 2012 - A Year of LaTeXML' described the project as already established in mathematical-knowledge-management work, originally created for NIST DLMF and then used in publishing frameworks, authoring suites, and large TeX corpora. GitHub release tags show the 0.8 line continuing from at least 2015's v0.8.1 through the v0.8.8 release work dated 2024-02-26.

Adoption history

LaTeXML found adoption where TeX is the authoring language but HTML, XML, accessibility, or machine-readable math is the delivery target. The project's own history emphasizes DLMF, mathematical publishing, authoring tools, and corpus conversion rather than a generic LaTeX-to-PDF workflow.

Package-manager adoption reflects that niche but durable role: Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, MacPorts, and openSUSE package it as a command-line conversion suite, exposing tools such as latexml, latexmlpost, latexmlmath, and latexmlc.

How it is used

Typical use is a pipeline: convert TeX-like input to LaTeXML's XML model, then postprocess it into web or interchange formats. The command family supports full-document conversion, daemon-style conversion, math fragments, postprocessing, and helper discovery.

Why package nerds care

LaTeXML matters to package nerds because it sits at the intersection of TeX packaging, Perl dependencies, XML vocabularies, MathML, and reproducible document conversion. It is the sort of formula that reveals whether a package manager can handle a research-software stack with long-lived academic infrastructure and many format edges.

Timeline

2004: Public release date recorded for LaTeXML in secondary software metadata.
2012: The project was described as used beyond DLMF in publishing frameworks, authoring suites, and large-scale TeX corpora.
2015: v0.8.1 release commit dated 2015-02-17.
2022: v0.8.7 release notes dated 2022-12-16 described broad usability, fidelity, robustness, portability, and output-quality work.
2024: v0.8.8 release work dated 2024-02-26 updated the manual and release notes.

Related projects

Related systems and standards include TeX, LaTeX, XML, HTML5, EPUB, JATS, TEI, MathML, the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, and arXiv-scale TeX corpus conversion efforts.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`latexml`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`latexmlc`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`latexmlfind`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`latexmlmath`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`latexmlpost`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.8.8

manager updated2026-07-04

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:latexml
Version	0.8.8
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://math.nist.gov/~BMiller/LaTeXML/
Repository	https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML
Last updated	2026-07-04T13:13:41+09:00
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

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source trail

Generated from repository data

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/latexml.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

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