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		Derbasti on June 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TeX Live 2014 Pdflatex is a rewrite that compiles directly to PDF. Xetex is a rewrite that supports Unicode and TTF/OTF fonts. Luatex is a rewrite that supports Unicode and TTF/OTF fonts and is scriptable in Lua.

Derbasti on June 19, 2014 [–]

Oh, I forgot: LuaJitTex is a descendant of LuaTex that uses LuaJit to compile.

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