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\Bluelatex vs the xonsh shell

A side-by-side look at \Bluelatex and the xonsh shell. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

\Bluelatex

\Bluelatex

Office & Productivity

Bluelatex is a TeX typesetting engine designed to generate high quality PDF documents. It is based on pdfTeX and has enhanced capability to handle complex documents with lots of images, fonts, metadata, etc.

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the xonsh shell

the xonsh shell

Development

The xonsh shell is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. Xonsh has rich syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and macros that speed up your workflow.

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