[Tugindia] what are different tex format availble now?

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Fri Jun 4 18:07:45 CEST 2004


Steve Peter <speter at mac.com> writes:

> On Friday, Jun 4, 2004, at 04:15 America/New_York, Ravinder Kumar
> B. wrote:
> 
> > Unix/Linux user can use tex or Latex.
> > If you use Windows then the following variant of tex can be used
> > 1) PCtex available at www.pctex.com/  (commercial)
> > 2) MikTex available at www.miktex.org/  (Free distribution)
> >    I personally found Winedt interface (www.winedt.com) working best
> > with
> > MikTex.
> 
> No, no, no. You've conflated things here.
> 
> TeX is the typesetting engine (there are alternate engines such as
> eTeX, NTS, Omega, pdfTeX).
> 
> Plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc., are formats (macro packages) built on
> top of the TeX engine.

Plain TeX is built on TeX.  All other formats are, if you heed the
recommendations, based off either PDFeTeX or eTeX.

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