TeX Distribution Help

# How to use TeX

In order to use TeX you need:

- A text editor like TextEdit, Alpha X, TextWrangler, TeXShop, emacs, vi, TextMate, iTeXMac2...

- A text processor, named a TeX engine, and all its associate resources,

- A viewer to display on screen your document, like Preview, Acrobat, TeXShop, iTeXMac2, PDFView

A TeX distribution is a collection of TeX related processors, macros libraries and fonts.

With these three components, one is able to typeset quite any kind of document, with a very high quality.

## See also:

TeX Distributions

The MacTeX Distribution.