Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
Sorry for a questioin that is a bit off-topic.
I'm a bit confused about the TeX terminology. I know what is what, but I don't know how all these programs/packages/macros are officially called in English.
How would you explain those in an encyclopedy with no more than one sentence?
* plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt are ... ? TeX formats ? (but ConTeXt is not just that) * TeX, eTeX, pdf(e)TeX, Aleph, Omega, XeTeX are ... ? TeX engines/extensions, an extended version of TeX ?
also languages (tex is language and interpreter)
* pdflatex is ...
a shortcut for "run pdftex in pdf mode with latex preloaded"
? * texexec is ... ?
a wrapper around tex (providing it a commandline of sorts)
* texutil, texfont are ... ? scripts/utilities for [whateverthetask] * MikTeX, TeX Live, teTeX are ... TeX distributions * PPCHTeX, XymTeX, MusicTeX are ... ConTeXt module(s) / LaTeX package(s) * PicTeX is ? TeX drawing environment
should be at the same level as ppchtex .....
* BibTeX is ... ?
program/language for handling bibs, output to be supported by the macro package
* TeXCeH is ... TeX user group
Hans