UNTEX(1)

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🌸 UNTEX(1) — the girlies' guide to stripping LaTeX ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to General Commands Manual territory, where we're talking about untex, a whole little icon 💅

✨ NAME ✨

untex — strip LaTeX comands from input

(and yes, the manpage itself says "comands", we don't fix canon in this house 💖)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

untex [ options ] [ files ...  ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically untex removes some LaTeX commands from the files you list in the arguments — or from standard input if you don't list any — and then prints the output to standard output. that's it, that's the whole vibe. lowkey a glow-up for your raw text ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • - — read from standard input. classic, iconic, no notes 🫶
  • -o — remove options to LaTeX commands, i. e. everything in brackets [] behind a command. bye bye brackets 💀
  • -i — process "\include{file}" and "\input{file}" and "\input file" commands. it's giving recursion energy 🌈
  • -m — (try to) remove all math code. note the "(try to)" bestie, we said what we said 😭
  • -u — replace all \"a (etc.) with ibm (CP850) characters.
  • -uiso — replace all \"a (etc.) with ISO characters.
  • -uascii — replace all \"a (etc.) with ascii characters.
  • -g — replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ibm (CP850) characters.
  • -giso — replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ISO characters.
  • -gascii — replace all "a (etc., from german.sty) with ascii characters.
  • -e — remove environment names. environment? gone. not me deleting it 🧚
  • -a — remove arguments of commands (not recommended). > ⚠️ bestie this one is literally marked not recommended, so proceed with caution fr fr

also, important lore: -g implies -u, and -a implies -o. so they come as a package deal, periodt 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

latex, tex, detex

like, the whole friend group 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so the tea ☕:

  • the -g and -u options only work for german accented characters. not fixed due to lack of time, and any help is appreciated. so if you've got free time and a dream, the maintainers are literally asking 🙈
  • the \includeonly command is ignored. it's just out here being invisible 💅
  • using the -u option in a UTF-8 terminal doesn't work. and using it alone in a Latin1 terminal doesn't work either — you must also add -uiso. yeah. you have to do both. no cap, that's the rule 😭

🌸 AUTHORS 🌸

untex was written by Michael Staats (michael@hal6000.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE). the -gascii and -uascii options were added by Denis Endisch (denis@smoky.ikf.physik.uni-frankfurt.de). and a big shoutout to Subhasish Mazumdar (mazumdar@ringer.cs.utsa.edu) for some hints for improvements and bug reports 💖 absolute legends, all of them 👑

and that's the whole page bestie! this lil masterpiece is from the 4th Berkeley Distribution, Version 1.2, dated 1994 April 6 — yes she's vintage, yes she still serves, we love a timeless queen 💅✨🎀

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