{"id":20023,"date":"2026-10-04T04:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=20023"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:18:57","slug":"tex-vs-latex-vs-pdftex-vs-miktex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/?p=20023","title":{"rendered":"TeX vs. LaTeX vs. pdfTeX vs. pdfLaTeX vs. MIKTEX"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following explanations are not exact, but hopefully provide a core understanding.<\/p>\n

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  1. TeX \u2014 The initial typesetting interpreter, which outputs DVI. 1<\/sup><\/li>\n
  2. LaTeX \u2014 TeX macro collection (for convenience). 2<\/sup><\/li>\n
  3. pdfTeX – A newer TeX interpreter, which also outputs PDF. 3<\/sup><\/li>\n
  4. pdfLaTeX – pdfTeX interpreter + Tex macro collection.<\/li>\n
  5. MiKTeX – A TeX distribution, containing e.g. pdfLaTeX, LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX. 4<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1<\/sup> Developed by Donald Knuth, released 1978.
    \n2<\/sup> Developed by Leslie Lamport, released 1984.
    \n3<\/sup> Developed by H\u00e0n Th\u1ebf Th\u00e0nh, released 1997.
    \n4<\/sup> Developed by Christian Schenk, released 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The following explanations are not exact, but hopefully provide a core understanding. TeX \u2014 The initial typesetting interpreter, which outputs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20023"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20040,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20023\/revisions\/20040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}