The computer program pdfTeX is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product...
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format, and later versions of TeX, notably pdfTeX, XeTeX, and LuaTeX, all support output directly to PDF. TeX provides a different text syntax specifically...
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Trouble with TeX". The PracTeX Journal (3). Retrieved 2008-04-21. "pdfTeX - TeX Users Group". www.tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-20. "XeTeX - TeX Users Group"...
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LuaTeX is a TeX-based computer typesetting system which started as a version of pdfTeX with a Lua scripting engine embedded. After some experiments it...
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Aleph and pdfTeX, using Lua as an integrated lightweight programming language. It is developed primarily by Taco Hoekwater. XeTeX and LuaTeX for recent...
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transliterated ASCII form like \cite{Ekstrom} which is mandatory using the pdfTeX engine. % Encoding: UTF8 @ARTICLE(Ekstrom, AUTHOR = "Author w", TITLE =...
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PSTricks (category Free TeX software)
alternative TeX package for programming graphics (also works with pdftex). CircuiTikZ Herbert Voss; PSTricks – Grafik für TeX und LaTeX, 7th edition...
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Acrobat Distiller, PDF Creator, OpenOffice or LibreOffice since release 3.0, LaTeX with pdfx or pdfTeX addons, or by using a virtual PDF printer (Adobe Acrobat...
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export documents in PDF. There are many PDF print drivers for Microsoft Windows, the pdfTeX typesetting system, the DocBook PDF tools, applications developed...
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6 was released in June 2020. Since version 2.7, MiKTeX has support for XeTeX, MetaPost and pdfTeX and compatibility with Windows 7. Support for 32-bit...
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Supports automatic .pdfsync & .synctex reloading of PDF files so is well favoured as a LaTeX / pdfTeX viewer with forward - inverse synchronization. Using...
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microtypography extensions to the TeX typesetting system and implemented them in pdfTeX. These are available as part of the LaTeX and ConTeXt typesetting packages...
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different TeX engines like LuaTeX (MkIV) and LuaMetaTeX (LMTX). Older versions (MkII) worked with pdfTeX or XeTeX. As its native drawing engine, ConTeXt integrates...
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features for making slideshow effects. It supports pdfLaTeX, LaTeX + dvips, LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX. The name is taken from the German word "Beamer" as...
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Device independent file format (redirect from DVI (TeX))
eps files) are also present in pdfTeX, which typesets TeX directly to PDF. The 2004, 4th edition of the Guide to LaTeX compares them in the following...
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Sumatra supports SyncTeX, a bidirectional method to synchronize TeX source and PDF output produced by pdfTeX or XeTeX. Sumatra PDF is written mainly by...
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TeX Live is a cross-platform, free software distribution for the TeX typesetting system that includes major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and...
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this feature, or the use of sophisticated typesetting tools. PdfTeX, a variant of the TeX typesetting program, has microtypographic capabilities that allow...
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ArabTeX is a free software package providing support for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets to TeX and LaTeX. Written by Klaus Lagally, it can take romanized...
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GNOME LaTeX (up to version 3.26 known as LaTeXila) is a TeX/LaTeX editor to edit TeX/LaTeX documents. It runs on Linux systems with the GTK library installed...
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RefTeX is a reference management software package designed for use with Emacs and BibTeX. While it can cooperate effectively with the popular AUCTeX package...
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New Typesetting System (category Free TeX software)
started a reimplementation of TeX project based on NTS: the ExTeX project. ExTeX is a merger of NTS with eTeX, pdfTeX and Omega and has never left pre-alpha...
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BibTeX file format is a widely used standard with broad support by reference management software. The BibTeX program comes bundled with the LaTeX document...
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Dvips (category Free TeX software)
use of pdfTeX to directly generate PDF files, which have readers for most platforms. Given its importance, dvips is a standard part of most TeX distributions...
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Texinfo (category Free TeX software)
pdftex program, a variant of TeX, to output PDF. LaTeX (Generated via texi2any --latex.) This is a typesetting system built on top of TeX. The LaTeX output...
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benefits of XeTeX (and some others). For LaTeX, the microtype package provides an interface to the pdfTeX microtypographic extensions; ConTeXt, another typesetting...
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comparison of TeX editors. Formula editor Comparison of word processors Comparison of text editors Comparison of desktop publishing software List of TeX extensions...
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microtypography has been implemented by Adobe InDesign and more recent versions of pdfTeX. The problem of loose lines is reduced by using hyphenation. With older...
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document processor LaTeX - collection of macros written by Leslie Lamport LuaTeX - all internals can be accessed from Lua pdfTeX - outputs PDF files directly...
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