MIMETEX(1)

📦 version 1.76, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

mimetex — bestie it is literally a LaTeX math expressions to anti-aliased GIF images converter. That's the whole job. No cap. 🎀

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

mimetex [options] [expression]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so, real talk: this page is a brief rundown of the mimetex command. It got written for the Debian distribution because the original program just… doesn't have a manual page? Like, none? Iconic of it, honestly, but here we are 💅. So this is the lore we have.

mimetex is the program that parses LaTeX math expressions and emits anti-aliased GIF images directly. No intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, no middleman, no "let me hand this off to another tool" energy. It's giving one-step slay. 🦋

🫶 the flags, bestie 🫶

  • -d — dump gif image on stdout [default]. Yeah, that's the default behavior, so if you just run it with nothing, this is what you get. ✨
  • -e export_file — write the gif image to export_file. You want it saved somewhere specific? Say the word.
  • -f input_file — read the expression from input_file instead of from wherever you were gonna put it. 🍓
  • -m msglevel — verbosity of debugging output. Turn the yapping up or down.
  • -o — render the image with an opaque background. Not transparent, opaque. Opaque is the vibe here. 🎀
  • -s fontsize — the default fontsize, and it goes 0-5. That's the range, don't get cute with it.
  • -m 0-99 — controls the verbosity level for debugging output. (usually used only while testing code) — so like, dev hours only, iykyk 🔥
okay not me noticing -m is in this list twice 😭 — once as msglevel and once as 0-99 — and I'm keeping both exactly as they are because that's what the page says and I do not make the rules, I just report them 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Isaac Clerencia <isaac@sindominio.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫶 Giving credit where credit is due, always.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was Mimetex, dated April 7, 2004, living in the General Commands Manual as MIMETEX(1) — go forth and convert your math into cute lil GIFs, mwah 💅✨

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