MacTeX
{{Short description|Distribution of TeX typesetting software for Mac computers}}
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| name = MacTeX Distribution
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| developer = MacTeX TeXnical working group
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| latest release version = MacTeX 2024
| latest release date = {{start date and age|2024|03|13}}
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| operating system = {{ubl|macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11, 12, 13, or 14}}
| platform = Arm and Intel
| size = 5.7 GB
| language = English
| genre = TeX Live redistribution
| license = Mixed free licenses
| website = {{URL|http://www.tug.org/mactex/}}
| AsOf = March 2024
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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).{{Cite web|url=https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html|title=MacTeX - TeX Users Group|website=tug.org|access-date=2019-07-22}} 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:
- 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html|title=More Packages - MacTeX - TeX Users Group|website=www.tug.org|access-date=2019-07-22}}
See also
References
External links
- {{official website|http://www.tug.org/mactex/}}
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