TeX Family

July 8 2017
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Tex family includes LaTeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt...

TeX: ancestor of all TeX related tools; written by Donald Knuth
LaTeX: higher level language than Tex; introduced concepts like packages, environments, etc.; created by Leslie Lamport
pdfTeX: added support for PDF; written by Han The Thanh
XeTeX: uses UTF-8 and system-specific fonts/libraries; written by Jonathan Kew
LuaTeX: added Lua support