Glossary
Terms used in PrismaTex and in these docs.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| AI credits | The amount, in euros, that AI features use. See Plans and AI credits. |
| AI model | The AI engine behind the assistant: Luna, Sol or Terra. |
| Assistant | The AI built into the editor. In Ask mode it answers without changing anything; in Edit mode it prepares a proposal. |
| BibTeX, Biber | Programs that build the bibliography from a .bib file. Biber goes with the biblatex package. PrismaTex runs them automatically. |
| Compilation | Turning LaTeX sources into a PDF with an engine: pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, LuaLaTeX or Latexmk. |
| Main document | The .tex file compiled to produce the PDF; it contains \documentclass. |
| Overfull hbox | A LaTeX warning: a line runs past the margin. The PDF is produced, but the layout is faulty. |
| Project | All the files of a document, saved online. |
| Proposal | The changes prepared by the assistant, which you keep or undo. See Reviewing AI changes. |
| SyncTeX | The link between the PDF and the source code that lets you jump from one to the other (Go to source, Go to PDF). |
| Template | The starting layout of a project: ACL paper, thesis, CV… See Templates. |
| Token | A unit of text (a short word or part of a word) used to measure the AI's work, and therefore the credits used. |
| Version | A snapshot of the project at a given moment, which you can compare or restore. See Version history. |