MacTeX is a free redistribution of

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, a typesetting environment based on

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. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform (running on

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, and

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), MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and front-ends (such as

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and

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). It is also pre-configured to work out-of-the-box with macOS, as it provides sensible defaults for configuration options that, in TeX Live, are left up to the user to allow for its cross-platform compatibility.

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MacTeX is packaged and distributed by the MacTeX TeXnical working group, a subgroup of

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(TUG). TeX Live is distributed by the TUG, making MacTeX less a fork of TeX Live than a customised repackaging. The full MacTeX install package contains three subpackages: *

* GUI applications **

** LaTeXiT (a LaTeX equation editor) ** TeX Live Utility (a utility to update, install or remove parts of TeX Live) **

(a Mac-based TeX editor) *

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(an open source version of PostScript) A substantially smaller version of MacTeX, BasicTeX, which does not contain Ghostscript or the aforementioned GUI programs, can be used instead along with a TeX editor as well.

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