OPTEX(1)
β¨ OPTEX β¨
okay bestie, welcome to optex β it's OPmac and Plain TeX for the LuaHBTeX engine π that's the whole vibe, that's the name section, we move.
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
optex [ first line ]
that's it, that's the summoning ritual π«Ά
π DESCRIPTION π
so first thing you need to know: this manual page? it was derived from the manual page for LaTeX, and ngl it is not meant to be exhaustive. like, it's giving appetizer, not the whole meal π if you want the complete documentation for this version of TeX, it lives in the info file or in the manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. go read those, bestie, they ate.
now, the actual tea β β OpTeX is a LuaTeX macro package that gets initialized as the LuaHBTeX format optex.fmt. iconic. it's built on two absolute legends:
- Plain TeX macros by Donald Knuth π the blueprint, the blueprint fr fr
- OPmac macros from the
csplainpackage π
and if you want more info about it, the web page is literally right here:
http://petr.olsak.net/optex
go look, it's lowkey a whole moment β¨
π¦ SEE ALSO π¦
(that trailing comma in the original? we keep her. she's part of the family now π)
π AUTHORS π
the author of OpTeX is Petr Olsak π periodt.
and that's the whole page, babe π this one came from Petr Olsak, dated 17 Feb. 2020, and yeah she's page OPTEX(1) of the General Commands Manual π«Ά tysm for reading, go compile something cute πΈβ¨
π¦ where this page comes from
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- opensuse-leap 16.0: texlive-optex-doc 2025.221.1.17svn74285-160000.3.1 Β· SUSE-Public-Domain
- ubuntu questing: texlive-luatex 2024.20250309-1
- ubuntu resolute: texlive-luatex 2025.20260124-1
- ubuntu stonking: texlive-luatex 2026.20260711-2
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms