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→‎TeX engines: - pdfTeX in lowercase
== TeX engines==
TeX the program writes only DVI output; with ConTeXt we normally use [[PdfTeX|pdfTeX]], [[LuaTeX]] or [[XeTeX]] and generate PDF.
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<tr style="background-color:#DDDDDD"><th>Name</th><th>OS</th><th>ConTeXt</th><th>Homepage</th><th>Remarks</th></tr>
<tr><td><b>[[PdfTeX|pdfTeX]]</b></td><td>"all"</td><td align="center">Yes</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/ pdftex.org]</td><td>latest version at [http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdftex/ freshmeat] or [http://pdftex.sarovar.org sarovar]</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td><b>[[XeTeX]]</b></td><td>"all"</td><td align="center">Yes</td><td>[http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex sil.org]</td><td>supports OpenType and all other fonts installed on OS, Unicode, bidirectional typesetting, Mac special features; Windows version not officially released yet - see W32TeX above</td></tr>
<tr><td>NTS</td><td>Java</td><td align="center">No</td><td>[http://www.dante.de/CTAN//systems/nts/ CTAN]</td><td>OO re-implementation of TeX in Java as a base for further enhancements; discontinued, see ExTeX</td></tr>
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