[OS X TeX] Texshp+TL09

[Herbert Schulz]

On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Per Ting wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As a new immigrant from PC to Mac, I need some help to set up MacTex
> (Texshop and friends) with TL09. Downloading MacTex will install  
> TL08. I am
> told that TL09 is stable and usable and has update facilities not  
> present in
> TL08. So my questions:
>
> 1-What are the steps for installing TL09+Texshop(and friends)? Note  
> that I
> am very new to Mac.
> 2-Are there any set of Macros (scripts) available for Texshop that  
> can be
> downloaded. As a long time user of MikTex+Winedt on PC I had  
> developed a
> good set of Macros for Winedt; in addition, Winedt had already a  
> generous
> set of macros coming with it or available from winedt.org site. I was
> wondering if there exists a site with similar macros for texshop?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Per

Howdy,

MacTeX(TeX Live)-2009 is still in pretest although I'd expect it to be  
finalized and released in the next week or two. You can download a  
pretest version (quite stable but not the final release) by choosing  
one of the hosts at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/mirmon/> and get more  
information at <http://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html>. Choose to  
download the mactex-2009-oct-4.mpgks.zip (1.3GB) which is the latest  
packaging as of today.

If you can wait a week the final pretest version, barring major  
disaster, should be available.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)