<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">If you installed MacTeX, then it will have installed not only the TeX Live TeX distribution, but also the TeXShop editor/front-end.<div><br></div><div>Open the TeXShop app. From its File menu, either open an existing .tex document or else create a new one and type its contents.</div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Do explore the TeXShop Help menu.</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 8, 2025, at 6:00 AM,Ashley Grooms <amgrooms0530@gmail.com> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div><br>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!<br><br>***********<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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