Macintosh systems
The TeX collection DVD includes MacTeX,
which is a Mac-tailored version of TeX Live; details may be found on
the TUG web site. If you don’t
have the disc, you can download the distribution from CTAN (but
note that it’s pretty big). MacTeX is an instance of TeX Live,
and has a Mac-tailored graphical TeX Live manager, so that you can
keep your distribution up-to-date.
OzTeX, by Andrew Trevorrow,
is a shareware version of TeX for the Macintosh. A DVI
previewer and PostScript driver are also included.
OzTeX is a Carbon app, so will run under Mac OS/X (see
http://www.trevorrow.com/oztex/ozosx.html for details), but it
is not a current version: it doesn’t even offer PDFTeX. A
mailing list is provided by TUG: sign up via
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/oztex
Another partly shareware program is
CMacTeX, put together by
Tom Kiffe. CMacTeX is much closer than OzTeX to the Unix TeX
model of things (it uses dvips, for instance). CMacTeX
runs natively under Mac OS/X; it includes a port of a version of
Omega.
Further information may be available in the
MacTeX wiki.
The MacTeX-on-OS X mailing list is another useful resource for
users; subscribe via the
list home page
- cmactex
- systems/mac/cmactex (or browse the directory); catalogue entry
- mactex
- systems/mac/mactex; catalogue entry
- oztex
- systems/mac/oztex (or browse the directory)
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