# Install textidote with Homebrew, Nix

Spelling, grammar and style checking on LaTeX documents. Version 0.9 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#textidote.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:textidote
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install textidote
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#textidote
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/textidote/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:textidote
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.9
- **Source summary:** Spelling, grammar and style checking on LaTeX documents
- **Homepage:** <https://sylvainhalle.github.io/textidote>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/sylvainhalle/textidote>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- textidote (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.9
## Project history and usage

TeXtidote is a Java command-line correction tool for LaTeX and Markdown documents. Its niche is preserving positions from marked-up source while sending cleaned text to LanguageTool, so grammar and style messages can be mapped back to the original file.

### Project history

The public repository began in June 2018 with early commits for annotated strings, linter rules, and LanguageTool integration. The project was renamed TeXtidote in the first week of development and published its v0.1 tag on 2018-06-14.

The README and project website describe TeXtidote as solving the problem that ordinary grammar checkers cannot distinguish LaTeX markup from prose. Later releases added report formats, dictionaries, rule ignoring, replacement files, and a `.textidote` configuration file for repeated command-line options.

### Adoption history

TeXtidote was distributed as a JAR and Debian package before appearing in Unix package-manager catalogs such as Homebrew and Nix. Its release history shows frequent 2018-2019 iteration, a 2021 maintenance line around LanguageTool upgrades, and a 2026 v0.9 release that incorporated several years of fixes.

### How it is used

Users run TeXtidote from the terminal against `.tex` or Markdown input and choose HTML, plain console, or single-line output. The single-line form is especially useful in editor integrations and CI-style checks because every warning is emitted as a parseable line with file and source position.

### Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, TeXtidote is a compact example of a JVM-based CLI wrapped for Unix workflows: a single executable command, shell completions, Debian packaging, and a dotfile config. It matters most to LaTeX-heavy developers who want LanguageTool-style checking without flattening source files by hand.

### Timeline

- 2018-06-11: First public commits
- 2018-06-14: v0.1 tag
- 2018-06-15: Project renamed to TeXtidote
- 2019-08-05: v0.8 tag
- 2021-12-16: v0.8.3 tag with LanguageTool 5.6 work
- 2026-03-25: v0.9 release published

### Related projects

- LanguageTool supplies the spelling, grammar, and style engine used after TeXtidote cleans markup.
- Aspell local dictionaries are supported for ignored words in LaTeX workflows.
- PaperShell is mentioned by the README as an environment that can produce local Aspell dictionaries consumed by TeXtidote.

### Sources

- Official git tags and commit history from https://github.com/sylvainhalle/textidote
- <https://github.com/sylvainhalle/textidote/blob/master/Readme.md>
- <https://github.com/sylvainhalle/textidote/releases>
- <https://sylvainhalle.github.io/textidote>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: .textidote
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - textidote: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/te/textidote/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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