The MacTeX Distribution
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MacTeX.dmg is an install package for Apple's installer. The package contains the complete TeX Live 2007 distribution of TeX, Ghostscript, ImageMagick, and the following front end programs
: TeXShop, LaTeXiT, BibDesk, Excalibur, and i-Installer. A custom install option allows users to bypass some of these packages if desired.
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Downloading and Installing
To install TeX and the front-end programs, double-click on the MacTeX.dmg icon, which will open a virtual volume on your desktop entitled "MacTeX-2007". On this volume you will find the MacTeX-2007.mpkg, which can be opened (double-click on it) to start the installation.
The Welcome.rtf and ReadMe.rtf documents are displayed during the installation of MacTeX and provided here if you skimmed over them during the installation.
To discover What Gets Installed Where and read about MacTeX's Support for Multiple TeX Distributions, click here.
Uninstalling
If you change your mind and decide that you want to uninstall MacTeX-2007,
read these notes.
Trouble Shooting
Here is a link to
The Most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the
MacTeX installation.
In addition there are links to other resources and the mactex-support webpage.
MacTeX Updates and Alternate Pieces
Upgrade Packages for MacTeX, and Alternate TeX Distributions for users who do not want to download the complete MacTeX, are available here.
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TeX Showcase
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For a first look at the capabilities of TeX,
click on the "TeX Showcase" and "Welcome to TeX! Now What?"
links to the left and right. TeX is very versatile and can be used to typeset beautiful
documents in many languages and in different fields
(mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, linguistics, etc.).
Samples of TeX documents in these fields can be found by visiting the
TeX Showcase webpage.
To get started using TeX on Mac OSX, find the icon for the TeXShop program in the TeX subfolder of your Applications folder and drag this icon to the dock. You will interact with TeX using this program. Click on its icon to open TeXShop.
Read the documentation under the TeXShop Help menu to start typesetting with TeX.
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To learn how to write in TeX, you need to read an instruction book. TeX is the same on all platforms, so any book on TeX will do.
Some of the books commonly recommended are listed
here.
For general questions about typesetting with LaTeX/XeTeX/ConTeXt on Mac OS X, see the
Mac OS X TeX Help web page on how to join the
appropriate mailing list.
The complete MacTeX Distribution, released in February, 2007 as part of the TeX Collection produced by the TeX User Groups, also contains additional Front Ends, Spell Checkers, Documentation, and Showcase items. This extra material can be obtained by downloading MacTextras.dmg from the following multiplexer site:
The MacTeX Distribution is available on CTAN or on the TeX Collection DVD (free with membership of TUG or with many of the other Users Groups around the world). Redistribution of files from the MacTeX collection should be done with care after reading the License restrictions by copyright holders.
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