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<tr style="background-color:#DDDDDD"><th>Name</th><th>OS</th><th>Homepage</th><th>Remarks</th></tr> | <tr style="background-color:#DDDDDD"><th>Name</th><th>OS</th><th>Homepage</th><th>Remarks</th></tr> | ||
− | <tr><td>TeX Live</td><td>a lot</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/texlive/ tug.org/texlive]</td><td>web2c, based on teTeX | + | <tr><td>TeX Live</td><td>a lot</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/texlive/ tug.org/texlive]</td><td>web2c, based on teTeX; experimental installer on Windows</td></tr> |
<tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>teTeX</td><td>Linux, Unix</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/tetex/ tug.org/tetex]</td><td>web2c</td></tr> | <tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>teTeX</td><td>Linux, Unix</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/tetex/ tug.org/tetex]</td><td>web2c</td></tr> | ||
− | <tr><td>fpTeX</td><td>Win32</td><td>[ | + | <tr><td>fpTeX</td><td>Win32</td><td>[https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/xemtex-web-gb-2-5.html xemtex]</td><td>not maintained any more, see XEmTeX</td></tr> |
+ | <tr><td>XEmTeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/xemtex-web-gb-2-1.html xemtex]</td><td></td></tr> | ||
<tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>MikTeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.miktex.org/ miktex.org]</td><td>with GUI</td></tr> | <tr style="background-color:#EEEEEE"><td>MikTeX</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.miktex.org/ miktex.org]</td><td>with GUI</td></tr> | ||
<tr><td>proTeXt</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/protext/ tug.org/protext]</td><td>based on MikTeX, bundled with TeX Live</td></tr> | <tr><td>proTeXt</td><td>Win</td><td>[http://www.tug.org/protext/ tug.org/protext]</td><td>based on MikTeX, bundled with TeX Live</td></tr> |
Revision as of 16:04, 1 January 2006
< Installation hints | Update Hints | Linux Installation >
Historically there were a lot of different TeX distributions. Nowadays there are only a few wide spread. We mention only those that are free and support ConTeXt:
Name | OS | Homepage | Remarks |
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TeX Live | a lot | tug.org/texlive | web2c, based on teTeX; experimental installer on Windows |
teTeX | Linux, Unix | tug.org/tetex | web2c |
fpTeX | Win32 | xemtex | not maintained any more, see XEmTeX |
XEmTeX | Win | xemtex | |
MikTeX | Win | miktex.org | with GUI |
proTeXt | Win | tug.org/protext | based on MikTeX, bundled with TeX Live |
gwTeX | MacOS X | rna.nl | web2c, based on TeX Live; comfortable install and update GUI ("i-Installer") |
minimal ConTeXt | Win, Lin, Mac | pragma-ade.com | web2c |
- web2c is a common base for TeX distributions, see tug.org/web2c. It uses the kpathsea tool and its ls-R database for file searches.
web2c hints
- use mktexlsr (same as texhash) to rebuild the file database after every install or change!
- Beware, older web2c distributions keep ConTeXt’s (Perl/Ruby) scripts at .../context/perltk, newer at .../scripts/Perl/context! Make sure to delete the older ones! See also Update Hints
MikTeX hints
- MikTeX has a "rebuild database" menu entry; use it after every install or change!
- You should enable write18 in miktex.ini (MikTeX's counterpart to texmf.cnf) to get MetaPost support working.
- See MikTeX Problems for more.
alternative TeX processors
TeX the program writes only DVI output; with ConTeXt we normally use pdfeTeX, a merger of eTeX and pdfTeX – it's nowadays probably the most used TeX processor and part of all(?) distributions. But there are more...
Name | OS | Homepage | Remarks |
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pdf(e)TeX | "all" | pdftex.org | latest version at freshmeat or sarovar |
MetaTeX | POSIX | metatex.org | tries to provide a fast pdfTeX, MetaPost etc. and kpathsea replacement as C libraries (pre-alpha state) |
NTS | Java | CTAN | OO re-implementation of TeX in Java as a base for further enhancements |
ExTeX | Java | extex.org | merger of NTS with eTeX, pdfTeX and Omega (pre-alpha state) |
Aleph | "all"? | CTAN | Omega/eTeX merge (former eOmega) by Giuseppe Bilotta (beta state) |
XeTeX | MacOS X | sil.org | uses Mac special features; bidirectional typesetting; supported by ConTeXt since Context 2004.10.07 |