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<tr><td>TeX Live</td><td>a lot</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/texlive/ tug.org/texlive]</td><td>web2c, based on teTeX; experimental has installer on Windowsand a package manger.</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>teTeX</td><td>Linux, Unix</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/tetex/ tug.org/tetex]</td><td>web2c</td></tr><tr><td>fpTeX</td><td>Win32</td><td>[https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/xemtex-web-gb-2-5.html xemtex]</td><td>; not maintained supported any more, see XEmTeXTeX Live is recommended instead.</td></tr><tr><td>XEmTeXMikTeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[httpshttp://xemtexwww.groupsmiktex.foundry.supelec.frorg/xemtex-web-gb-2-1miktex.html xemtexorg]</td><td>with GUI</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>MikTeXproTeXt</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.miktextug.org/ miktexprotext/ tug.org/protext]</td><td>based on MikTeX, bundled with GUITeX Live</td></tr><tr><td>proTeXtW32TeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.tugfsci.fuk.kindai.ac.orgjp/kakuto/protextwin32-ptex/ tugweb2c75-e.html fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.org/protextjp]</td><td>based on MikTeX, bundled with TeX LiveXeTeX and the latest ConTeXt</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>gwTeXMacTeX</td><td>MacOS X</td><td>[http://www.rnatug.nlorg/mactex/textug.html rna.nlorg/mactex]</td><td>web2c, based on TeX Live; comfortable install and update GUI ("i-Installer"). Actually the simplest MacOSX install.</td></tr><trstyle="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>minimal ConTeXt</td><td>Win, Lin, Mac</td><td>[http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/ pragma-ade.com]</td><td>web2c</td></tr>

==alternative TeX processorsengines==

TeX the program writes only DVI output; with ConTeXt we normally use pdfeTeX[[PdfTeX|pdfTeX]], a merger of eTeX and pdfTeX &#150; it's nowadays probably the most used TeX processor [[LuaTeX]] or [[XeTeX]] and part of all(?) distributions. But there are more..generate PDF.

<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 - Old Content|pdfTeX|pdf(e)TeX]]</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]; [http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=luatex development frozen], see LuaTeX</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>MetaTeX<b>[[LuaTeX]]</b></td><td>"all"</td><tdalign="center">POSIXYes</td><td>[http://www.metatexluatex.org metatex/ luatex.org]</td><td>tries to provide a fast extended version of pdfTeX, MetaPost etcusing Lua</td></tr><tr><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 kpathsea replacement as C libraries (preall other fonts installed on OS, Unicode, bidirectional typesetting, Mac special features; Windows version not officially released yet -alpha state)see W32TeX above</td></tr><trstyle="background-color:#EEEEEE"><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><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>ExTeX</td><td>Java</td><td align="center">No</td><td>[http://www.extex.org/ extex.org]</td><td>merger of NTS with eTeX, pdfTeX and Omega (pre-alpha state)</td></tr><trstyle="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>[[Aleph]]</td><td>"all"?</td><td align="center">Yes</td><td>[http://www.dante.de/CTAN//systems/aleph/ CTAN]</td><td>Omega/eTeX merge (former eOmega) by Giuseppe Bilotta (beta state)</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>[[XeTeX]]</td><td>MacOS X</td><td>[http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex sil.org]</td><td>uses Mac special features; bidirectional typesetting; supported by ConTeXt since [[Context 2004.10.07]]</td></tr>