Editing LaTeX (section)

==Related software==
As a macro package, LaTeX provides a set of macros for TeX to interpret. There are many other macro packages for TeX, including Plain TeX, [[GNU Texinfo]], [[AMSTeX]], and [[ConTeXt]].

When TeX "compiles" a document, it follows (from the user's point of view) the following processing sequence: Macros → TeX → Driver → Output. Different implementations of each of these steps are typically available in TeX distributions. Traditional TeX will output a [[DVI (file format)|DVI]] file, which is usually converted to a [[PostScript]] file. In 2000, Hàn Thế Thành and others wrote an implementation of TeX called [[pdfTeX]], which also outputs to [[PDF]] and takes advantage of features available in that format.<ref>{{Cite web |title=pdfTeX - TeX Users Group |url=https://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/ |access-date=2019-07-20 |website=www.tug.org}}</ref> The [[XeTeX]] engine developed by Jonathan Kew, on the other hand, merges modern font technologies and Unicode with TeX.<ref>{{Cite web |title=XeTeX - TeX Users Group |url=http://www.tug.org/xetex/ |access-date=2019-07-20 |website=www.tug.org}}</ref> [[LuaTeX]] is an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language.<ref name=luatex>{{cite web|
url=https://www.luatex.org/ | title=LuaTeX | access-date=2023-07-18}}</ref>