On 4/5/07, Andrea Valle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a bit confused. Still can't have a clear frame of -TeX stuff. > > What does this exactly mean (from wikipedia)? > > > XeTeX works well with both LaTeX and ConTeXt.
In the beginning there was tex, a program. I know people who create documents using low-level tex markup, but most people rely on a macro package to define high-level markup. In the early days, tex was often used with a simple macro package called "plain". Then, for people with nice minicomputers, Lamport wrote a macro package called LaTeX, which was used with the same tex program and remains popular today. ConTeXt includes yet another macro package, but is really a system with lots of useful tools. Along with the tex program, there was a system to create fonts, but meanwhile other font fomats have become widely adopted, and people have found ways to use these commercial fonts and formats with tex, but for the most part, fonts used with tex are separate from the system fonts and configuring a new font for use with tex is not a simple process. These days people rarely use the (current version of) the original tex program because we have pdftex, which can be used to format documents using the plain or latex or context macros to create .pdf directly as well as .dvi files, and xetex, which can also be used with the same list of macro packages to create .pdf or .xdv (replacement for .dvi). The main advantage of xetex is that it supports system fonts directly. It is, however, new, so there could be glitches. <http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=latex> has lots of useful information The xetex web site has examples and a FAQ. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
