---
name: "jadetex"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "texlive-doc"
version: "2026.1-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/jadetex"
---

# jadetex(1)

processing tex files produced by the TeX backend of Jade.

## NAME

jadetex - processing tex files produced by the TeX backend of Jade.

## SYNOPSIS

**jadetex** \[ first line \]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page was derived from the manual page for LaTeX and is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual *Web2C: A TeX implementation*.

JadeTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the TeX source program, so all the capabilities described in [**tex**(1)](/tex/1.md) are present. **pdfjadetex** is the PDFTeX version of the jadeTeX format.

## SEE ALSO

[**pdfjadetex**(1)](/pdfjadetex/1.md), [**latex**(1)](/latex/1.md), [**tex**(1)](/tex/1.md),\

## AUTHORS

The author of jadeTeX is Sebastian Rahtz.

This manual page was derived from the LaTeX manual page. It is provided for the Debian distribution by Marcus Brinkmann. Please send improvements, suggestion and other comments to brinkmd@debian.org.