使用 Homebrew 安装 opendetex

项目链接

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命令和别名

• delatex

项目历史

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.

采用历史

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.

使用方式

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.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

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.

时间线

• 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.

来源

• 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/