Using MacTeX (texhax Digest, Vol 2025, Issue 85)

[Murray Eisenberg]

If you installed MacTeX, then it will have installed not only the TeX Live TeX distribution, but also the TeXShop editor/front-end.

Open the TeXShop app. From its File menu, either open an existing .tex document or else create a new one and type its contents.

From the document's window, click the Typeset button. This will use LaTeX to process your .tex source (if it was a new file, you will be prompted to give it a name and save it). Voilà, the document will be processed by LaTeX and a viewer built into TeXShop will pop up a window with the resulting .pdf output (and that .pdf file will automatically be saved to the same folder where you had the .tex source.)

If you need other TeX-related processing, such as running BiBTeX or MakeIndex, then those can be accessed from the same .tex source window by using the drop-down menu just to the right of the Typeset button. (That drop-down window by default shows "LaTeX", whih means pdfLaTeX.

Do explore the TeXShop Help menu.

> On Oct 8, 2025, at 6:00 AM,Ashley Grooms <amgrooms0530 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am very familiar with LaTeX code, but I am having some issues with MacTeX (the main one being that I am not sure how to create a document? the PDF isn?t showing up when I save the script). I read the intro ?read me" file, but I guess I may have misunderstood it. Any help is very appreciated!
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