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What is the meaning of the term "format", as used in the following comment I received to a question I posted on this forum:

LaTeX3' isn't released as a format: perhaps you mean expl3?

The answer I received to the above mentioned question also mentions this term:

You can dump a format from the current expl3 but it will just do nothing because it doesn't provide basic things like an output routine. If you are already running some format (Plain TeX, LaTeX2e, ConTeXt, lollipop, etc) you can input the expl3 macro package and use everything it provides.

I think you are asking whether there exists a format which has expl3 preloaded, to which the answer is no.

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    Basically a set of macros compiled into a single union.
    – Johannes_B
    Commented Aug 26, 2017 at 7:32
  • @Johannes_B: What do you mean by "compiled into a single union"?
    – Evan Aad
    Commented Aug 26, 2017 at 7:33
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    See this answer by Mico.
    – TeXnician
    Commented Aug 26, 2017 at 7:39
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    We've had several questions in this area in the past: I suspect it's a dupe of the one already linked to or something similar.
    – Joseph Wright ♦
    Commented Aug 26, 2017 at 7:47
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    @JosephWright: I searched for questions with "format" in the title before posting this one, and couldn't find any. But I think the question that TeXnician linked to might indeed be effectively what I'm asking. I'm not deleting my question, in case someone else searches for "format" as I did.
    – Evan Aad
    Commented Aug 26, 2017 at 7:56

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