T_EX Engines and Formats
and their T_EX Live Commands

… according to Arno Trautmann’s tex-overview

Δ indicates the engine’s DVI mode, Π its PDF mode.

Many Engines, Popular Formats

δ indicates emulation by pdfT_EX ^Δ, π by pdfT_EX ^Π,
μ with MLT_EX extensions enabled.
Λ indicates use of LaT_EX’s variant Lamed.

\ format engine \	Plain T_EX	LaT_EX	ConT_EXt
T_EX3	`tex`	—	—
ε-T_EX ^δ pdfT_EX ^Δ	`etex`	`latex`	—
pdfT_EX ^Π	`pdftex` `pdfetex`	`pdflatex`	`texexec`
LuaT_EX ^Δ	`dviluatex`	`dvilualatex`	—
LuaT_EX ^Π	`luatex`	`lualatex`	`context`
MLT_EX ^δμ	`mltex`	`mllatex`	—
pT_EX	`ptex`	—	—
ε-pT_EX	`eptex`	`platex`	—
ε-upT_EX	`euptex`	`uplatex`	—
X_ET_EX	`xetex`	`xelatex`	—
Aleph	`aleph`	`lamed` ^Λ	—

Other Formats, with pdfT_EX

format	pdfT_EX ^Δ	pdfT_EX ^Π
AMST_EX	`amstex`	—
Csplain	`csplain`	`pdfcsplain`
Eplain	`eplain`	—
JadeT_EX	`jadetex`	`pdfjadetex`
M_EX	`mex`	`pdfmex`
UTF8M_EX	`utf8mex`	—
T_EXsis	`texsis`	—
XMLT_EX	`xmltex`	`pdfxmltex`

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