I've been on the periphery of TeX for years, as a casual user of LaTeX and
also as an implementer of publishing software. However, I'm afraid I
haven't kept in as close touch as I'd like, and now I find myself trying to
absorb a lot in a short time. I'm trying to choose what software to use in
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 22:23, Peter Davis p...@pfdstudio.com wrote:
I've been on the periphery of TeX for years, as a casual user of LaTeX and
also as an implementer of publishing software. However, I'm afraid I
haven't kept in as close touch as I'd like, and now I find myself trying to
On 17-11-2010 10:23, Peter Davis wrote:
1. by format (plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, others?)
there are others but they're sort of obsolete
2. by implementation (web2c, pdfTeX/pdfLaTeX, LuaTeX, others?)
see remarks by Mojca: engines (etex, pdftex, xetex, luatex),
implementation
Thanks for all the information, and for helping me update and refine my
view of the (TeX) world.
For the project I'm doing now, which involves creating desktop
publishing type documents (multiple text flows, explicit control of
placement of text and graphic elements, etc.), ConTeXt seems to
