mtx-ctan(1)

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💖 mtx-ctan — Dealing with CTAN 💖

okay bestie, so this is mtx-ctan(1), a lil ConTeXt script for vibing with CTAN (that's the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network, the mothership of TeX packages). It lives in the ConTeXt manual pages, section 1. Pull up a chair, grab a boba, let's go 🧋✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mtxrun --script ctan [ OPTIONS ...  ] [ FILENAMES ]

like, that's the whole invocation. mtxrun runs it, --script ctan picks this script, and then you throw options and filenames at it 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Dealing with CTAN 🦋

no literally, that's the description. it deals with CTAN. short, sweet, iconic, main character energy, and honestly? it ate.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here's the whole menu, no skips, no edits, every single flag:

  • --packages — list available packages. and yes you can steer it with --field=key|name|caption if you wanna choose what the columns show 👑
  • --topics — list available topics. same deal, pair it with --field=key|name|details to pick your fields 🌈
  • --details — show details about a package. the tea, the lore, the whole story 🍓
  • --pattern=string — use this pattern, otherwise first argument. so if you don't pass a pattern, it just grabs the first argument instead. fr fr 💫
ngl bestie, those --field=key|name|caption and --field=key|name|details values are literally written with pipes like that in the original, so type them exactly as shown, no improvising 🙈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

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okay that's the whole page!! 🫶 this was version 1.00, dated 01-01-2025, and it's the mtx-ctan page from the ConTeXt manual set. go forth and deal with CTAN, bestie, you got this 💖✨🎀

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