OPTEX(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

✨ OPTEX ✨

okay bestie, welcome to optex — it's OPmac and Plain TeX for the LuaHBTeX engine 💖 that's the whole vibe, that's the name section, we move.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

optex [ first line ]

that's it, that's the summoning ritual 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

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 🙈 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 ☕ — 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 👑 the blueprint, the blueprint fr fr
  • OPmac macros from the csplain package 🌈

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 ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

(that trailing comma in the original? we keep her. she's part of the family now 🎀)

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

the author of OpTeX is Petr Olsak 💜 periodt.

and that's the whole page, babe 💖 this one came from Petr Olsak, dated 17 Feb. 2020, and yeah she's page OPTEX(1) of the General Commands Manual 🫶 tysm for reading, go compile something cute 🌸✨

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