MacTeX is a free redistribution of
TeX Live, a typesetting environment based on
TeX. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform (running on
Unix
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,
macOS
macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...
, and
Windows
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), MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and
front-ends (such as
TeXShop
TeXShop is a free LaTeX and TeX editor and previewer for macOS. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Details
TeXShop was developed by American mathematician Richard Koch. It was modeled on NeXTstep's bundled TeXview.app and developed for the then n ...
and
BibDesk
BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for macOS, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It can also be used to organize and maintain a library of documents in PDF format and other f ...
).
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.
Details
MacTeX is packaged and distributed by the MacTeX TeXnical working group, a subgroup of
TeX Users Group
Tex may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname
* Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr.
Entertainment
* ''Tex'', the Italian ...
(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:
*
TeX Live
*
GUI-Applications
**
BibDesk
BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for macOS, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It can also be used to organize and maintain a library of documents in PDF format and other f ...
** Excalibur (a LaTeX spell checker)
** LaTeXiT (a LaTeX equation editor)
** TeX Live Utility (a utility to update, install or remove parts of TeX Live)
**
TeXShop
TeXShop is a free LaTeX and TeX editor and previewer for macOS. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Details
TeXShop was developed by American mathematician Richard Koch. It was modeled on NeXTstep's bundled TeXview.app and developed for the then n ...
(A Mac-based TeX editor)
*
Ghostscript
Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization or rendering of such page description language file ...
(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.
See also
*
BibDesk
BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for macOS, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It can also be used to organize and maintain a library of documents in PDF format and other f ...
*
MiKTeX
MiKTeX is a free and open-source distribution of the TeX/LaTeX typesetting system for Microsoft Windows (and for Mac and certain Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora). It also contains a set of related programs. MiKTeX provid ...
*
TeX Live
*
TeXShop
TeXShop is a free LaTeX and TeX editor and previewer for macOS. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Details
TeXShop was developed by American mathematician Richard Koch. It was modeled on NeXTstep's bundled TeXview.app and developed for the then n ...
References
External links
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