MacTeX
Developer(s) | MacTeX TeXnical working group |
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Stable release | MacTeX 2024 / March 13, 2024; 5 months ago (2024-03-13) |
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Platform | Arm and Intel |
Size | 5.7 GB |
Available in | English |
Type | TeX Live redistribution |
License | Mixed free licenses |
Website | www |
As of | March 2024 |
MacTeX is a free redistribution of TeX Live, a typesetting environment based on TeX. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform (running on Unix, macOS, and Windows), MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and front-ends (such as TeXShop and BibDesk).[1] It is also pre-configured to work out-of-the-box with macOS, as it provides sensible defaults for configuration options that, in TeX Live, are left up to the user to allow for its cross-platform compatibility.
Details
MacTeX is packaged and distributed by the MacTeX TeXnical working group, a subgroup of TeX Users Group (TUG). TeX Live is distributed by the TUG, making MacTeX less a fork of TeX Live than a customised repackaging.
The full MacTeX install package contains three subpackages:[1]
- TeX Live
- GUI applications
- BibDesk
- LaTeXiT (a LaTeX equation editor)
- TeX Live Utility (a utility to update, install or remove parts of TeX Live)
- TeXShop (a Mac-based TeX editor)
- Ghostscript (an open source version of PostScript)
A substantially smaller version of MacTeX, BasicTeX, which does not contain Ghostscript or the aforementioned GUI programs, can be used instead along with a TeX editor as well.[2]
For "Full TeX Live distribution without GUI applications" [3] use Homebrew
brew install mactex-no-gui
See also
References
External links
- Official website
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