[OS X TeX] A Wintel mate to TeXShop

[Joseph C. Slater]

A starting point on the mac-tex page:
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/TeXonWindows.html
Joe
On Sep 22, 2005, at 5:21 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Oops. I forgot to mention that I was running TeXShop v1.40,  
> absolutely plain vanilla i.e. LaTeX and Pdftex as Defaults and  
> Panther Distiller, on OS X 10.3.9.
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
> Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>
>> My schedule this semester means that I will have to spend some  
>> time in my office at school. So, I thought that I would use these  
>> hours on my magnum opus. But of course, all I have there is a  
>> wintel box. So, here is my question: what should I install/do  
>> there so that I can work on said magnum opus both home and in the  
>> office. Is there any kind of problem that I should expect or am I  
>> just my usual paranoid self and I should just download MikTeX and  
>> all shall be well in the best of all possible worlds?
>>
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>> P.S. Below is the preamble of the magnum opus.
>> %========================================================
>> % begin PREAMBLE
>>    % begin use packages
>>        \usepackage{color}
>>        \usepackage{colortbl}              \usepackage{graphicx}
>>        \usepackage{epstopdf}
>>        \usepackage{float}
>>        \usepackage{pdfsync}
>>        \usepackage{paralist}
>>        \usepackage{amsthm}
>>        \usepackage{amsmath}
>>        \usepackage{amssymb}
>>        \usepackage{array}
>>        \usepackage{amscd}
>>        \usepackage{pifont}
>>        \usepackage{enumerate}
>>        \usepackage{ulem}
>>        \usepackage{calc}
>>        \usepackage{booktabs}
>>        \usepackage{relsize}
>>        \usepackage[cspex,bbgreekl]{mathbbol}
>>        \usepackage{makeidx}
>>        \usepackage{showidx}
>>        \usepackage{bibentry,natbib}
>>        \usepackage{multirow}
>>        \usepackage{fancyvrb}
>>        \usepackage{fancybox}
>>        \usepackage{varioref}
>>        \usepackage{prettyref}
>>        \usepackage{cancel}
>>        \usepackage{askinclude}
>>    % end use packages
>>          \graphicspath{./{Figures/}}
>>      %begin set
>>        \setdefaultenum{\bfseries 1.}{\hspace*{2.pc} \bfseries a.} 
>> {\bfseries i.}{} %controls asparaenum
>>        \setdefaultleftmargin{5mm}{6mm}{7mm}{8mm}{}{} % controls  
>> indent on compactitem      %end set
>>
>>
>>
>>    %begin new commands and environments
>>        %\begin{interitemtext}
>>            \makeatletter
>>            \newcommand{\interitemtext}[1]{%
>>            \begin{list}{}
>>            {\itemindent=0mm\labelsep=0mm
>>            \labelwidth=0mm\leftmargin=0mm
>>            \addtolength{\leftmargin}{-\@totalleftmargin}}
>>            \item #1
>>            \end{list}}
>>            \makeatother
>>        %\end{interitemtext}
>>            \newcommand{\object}[1]{\textbf{\textit{#1}}}
>>            \newcommand{\NUMBER}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
>>            \newcommand{\SUBJECT}[1]{\textsc 
>> {#1}}                      \newcommand{\STATEMENT}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
>>            \newcommand{\scbf}[2]{{\bfseries\sffamily #1\textsmaller 
>> [2]{#2}}\normalfont}
>>            \newcommand{\NewTerm}[1]{\textbf{#1}\index{#1}}
>> %            \newcommand{\NewTerm}[1]{\textbf{#1}\index{#1} 
>> \marginpar{#1}}
>>                              \DeclareMathAlphabet{\denom}{OT1} 
>> {cmss}{sbc}{n}
>>            \normalem
>>            \makeindex
>>           %            \labelformat{section}{section~#1}
>>            \newrefformat{sec}{Section~\ref{#1}}
>>            \newenvironment{semantic}{\setdefaultitem{$\spadesuit$} 
>> {}{}{}\begin{compactitem}}{\end{compactitem}}
>>            \newenvironment{syntactic}{\setdefaultitem{\ding{118}}{} 
>> {}{}\begin{compactitem}}{\end{compactitem}}
>>      % end use new commands and environments
>>    % begin STYLES
>>        \theoremstyle{plain}
>>        \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
>>        \theoremstyle{definition}
>>        \newtheorem{defn}{Definition}
>>        \theoremstyle{remark}
>>        \newtheorem*{note}{Note}
>>        \theoremstyle{remark}
>>        \newtheorem{xpl}{Example}
>>        \bibliographystyle{plain}
>>    % end STYLES
>>
>>
>> %end PREAMBLE
>> %========================================================
>>
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