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

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)

I would say plain and latex are 'TeX macro packages'. ConTeXt is more like a 'typesetting system with TeX and MetaPost at it's core'

* TeX, eTeX, pdf(e)TeX, Aleph, Omega, XeTeX are ... ? TeX engines/extensions, an extended version of TeX ?

Variants?