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Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für asciitex in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Generate ASCII-art representations of mathematical equations
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- asciiTeX
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
asciiTeX is an ASCII equation renderer for producing plain-text mathematical notation with LaTeX-like syntax. It is historically interesting as a small scientific/terminal utility for email, source comments, and other contexts where rendered images or Unicode math are inconvenient.
Projektgeschichte
The official homepage describes asciiTeX as an ASCII equation renderer released under the GPL. It says the project is a fork of eqascii, adding new features and many bug fixes, and it documents both a GTK graphical interface and a command-line program named `asciiTeX`.
The same official page now carries a maintenance note saying asciiTeX is not maintained and points users to two successor paths: a fork at larseggert/asciiTeX and the original author's newer libtexprintf/utftex work for monospace TeX-like math formatting with Unicode support.
Adoptionsgeschichte
asciiTeX appears to have stayed niche: the input facts list only Homebrew packaging, and the official site focuses on SourceForge downloads, build-from-source instructions, and a Windows installer. Its adoption story is therefore less about ecosystem ubiquity and more about preserving a small utility for ASCII math rendering.
Wie es verwendet wird
The command-line form accepts equations directly or from a file: `asciiTeX [-v] [-h] [-f file] [-ll line-length] [equation]`. It supports LaTeX-like constructs such as fractions, superscripts, subscripts, roots, sums, products, integrals, braces, arrows, limits, and overlines, then emits fixed-width ASCII output.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
asciiTeX is a good example of the long tail in package managers: a dormant SourceForge-era C/GTK utility remains useful enough to package because it solves a specific text-only problem and has no modern service dependency.
Zeitleiste
- SourceForge era: asciiTeX published as a GPL fork of eqascii with command-line and GTK interfaces.
- Current official homepage: project marked unmaintained and successor/fork links documented.
Related projects
- eqascii is the project asciiTeX forked from.
- larseggert/asciiTeX is listed by the official homepage as an updated fork.
- libtexprintf and utftex are listed by the original author as newer alternatives.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 13 Plattformziele verfügbar.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
asciiTeX | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
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Seite generiert2026-07-08
Manager-Version0.21
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
https://asciitex.sourceforge.net/
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://asciitex.sourceforge.net/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:asciitex |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.21 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/asciitex |
| Homepage | https://asciitex.sourceforge.net/ |
| Repository | https://sourceforge.net/p/asciitex/code |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://asciitex.sourceforge.net/ |
| Lizenz | GPL-2.0-only |
| Quellarchiv | https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/asciitex/asciiTeX-0.21.tar.gz |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | asciitex |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
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