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Running and controlling TeX
! Usually, all you will ever need is a single `textengine` instance which
controls a single running TeX or LaTeX instance at a time or uses direct Unicode text typesetting. To make life easy to
our users..., such an instance is created automatically upon startup and its
called the `defaulttextengine`. Whenever you use the function shortcuts like
`text.text()` and in particular `text.set()`, you are accessing this
`defaulttextengine` instance. Also, the shortcut method `text` of any canvas
instance uses this `defaulttextengine` by default.
!! However, it is possible to create several textengine instances. In this
example, we are using three of them. To make it a little more interesting, we
instruct the `defaulttextengine` to use LaTeX, while keeping TeX for the
`plaintex` instance. It is you turn to use expressions valid in TeX or
LaTeX only at the different `textengine` instances. Additionally we show the
use of a `unicodetext` instance to typeset Unicode text.
!! Note that you do not have to worry about mixing the results of different
textengines into a single output. Even the embedded fonts in the output are
shared. You can, by the way, also restart a plain TeX or LaTeX engines
including the `defaulttextengine`, which is a plain TeX engine.
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