Comparison of OpTeX with other formats: LaTeX and ConTeXt
Authors
Year
2021
Published
TUGboat, The Communication of the TeX Users Group. 2021, 2021(42:1), ISSN 0896-3207.
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Article
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Annotation
OpTEX [1] was introduced in an article [2] in the previous issue of TUGboat. It is a macro package that creates a format for LuaTEX. Its features are comparable with other formats like LaTEX or ConTEXt. One may ask why to use a new format, particularly when it requires a different markup syntax. I try to answer this question here. I present a comparison among the LaTEX, ConTEXt, and OpTEX formats, from various points of view.
OpTeX -- successor to the OPmac macros for LuaTeX
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Article
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Annotation
The article describes OpTeX [1] -- a LuaTeX format based on plain TeX and OPmac. This macro package was introduced in TugBoat~[7] and now, it is presented for Czech and Slovak users. The presentation is slighlty different than in the cited article [7]. For example, the comparison with LaTeX and ConTeXt is mentioned here including benchmarks in tables.
OpTeX -- A new generation of Plain TeX
Authors
Year
2020
Published
TUGboat, The Communication of the TeX Users Group. 2020, 2020(41:3), ISSN 0896-3207.
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Article
Departments
Annotation
OpTEX [1] is a new format prepared for LuaTEX. It keeps Plain TEX’s simplicity, adds the power of the OPmac macros [2] and leaves behind the old obscurities with non-Unicode fonts and with various TEX engines. It provides a powerful font selection system, colors, graphics, references, hyperlinks, syn-tax highlighting, preparing indexes and bibliography listings. All these features are implemented at TEXmacro level and they are ready to use without any external program. OpTEX is a new Plain TEX suitable for the present.