TEX Engines and Formats
and their TEX 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 pdfTEX Δ, π by pdfTEX Π,
μ with MLTEX extensions enabled.
Λ indicates use of LaTEX’s variant Lamed.
\ format
engine \
Plain TEXLaTEXConTEXt
TEX3tex
ε-TEX δ
pdfTEX Δ
etexlatex
pdfTEX Πpdftex
pdfetex
pdflatex texexec
LuaTEX Δdviluatexdvilualatex
LuaTEX Πluatexlualatexcontext
MLTEX δμmltexmllatex
pTEXptex
ε-pTEXeptexplatex
ε-upTEXeuptexuplatex
XETEXxetexxelatex
Aleph alephlamedΛ

Other Formats, with pdfTEX

format pdfTEX Δ pdfTEX Π
AMSTEXamstex
Csplaincsplainpdfcsplain
Eplaineplain
JadeTEXjadetexpdfjadetex
MEXmexpdfmex
UTF8MEXutf8mex
TEXsistexsis
XMLTEXxmltexpdfxmltex

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