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W32TeX added: comes with XeTeX
<tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>MikTeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.miktex.org/ miktex.org]</td><td>with GUI</td></tr>
<tr><td>proTeXt</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/protext/ tug.org/protext]</td><td>based on MikTeX, bundled with TeX Live</td></tr>
<tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>W32TeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp]</td><td>with XeTeX and the latest ConTeXt</td></tr><tr><td>gwTeX</td><td>MacOS X</td><td>[http://www.rna.nl/tex.html rna.nl]</td><td>web2c, based on TeX Live; comfortable install and update GUI ("i-Installer")</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>
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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|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]</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>MetaTeX<b>[[XeTeX]]</b></td><td>POSIX"all"</td><td align="center">NoYes</td><td>[http://wwwscripts.metatexsil.org metatex/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex sil.org]</td><td>tries to provide a fast pdfTeXsupports OpenType and all other fonts installed on OS, Unicode, bidirectional typesetting, MetaPost etc. and kpathsea replacement as C libraries (preMac special features; Windows version not officially released yet -alpha state)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>
<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>
<tr><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]]MetaTeX</td><td>MacOS XPOSIX</td><td align="center">YesNo</td><td>[http://scriptswww.silmetatex.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex silmetatex.org]</td><td>uses Mac special features; bidirectional typesetting; supported by ConTeXt since [[Context 2004tries to provide a fast pdfTeX, MetaPost etc.10.07]]and kpathsea replacement as C libraries (pre-alpha state)</td></tr>
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