--- texk/detex/detex-src/detex.man (revision 58111)
+++ texk/detex/detex-src/detex.man (working copy)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH DETEX 1 "12 August 1993" "Purdue University"
+.TH DETEX 1 "4 March 2021" "Purdue University"
.SH NAME
detex \- a filter to strip \fITeX\fP commands from a .tex file.
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ environments.
.PP
The
.B \-r
-option tries to naively replace $..$, $$..$$, \(..\) and \[..\]
+option tries to naively replace $..$, $$..$$, \\(..\\) and \\[..\\]
with nouns and verbs (in particular, "noun" and "verbs")
in a way that keeps sentences readable.
.PP
Found in Debian, I updated it in TeX Live.