MacTeX
| Developer(s) | MacTeX TeXnical working group |
|---|---|
| Stable release | MacTeX 2019
/ May 8, 2019 |
| Operating system |
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| Platform | Intel |
| Size | 3.9 GB |
| Available in | English |
| Type | TeX Live redistribution |
| License | Mixed free licenses |
| Website | www |
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.
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
- Ghostscript (an open source version of PostScript)
As of 2019, the content of the full MacTeX installation exceeds 4 GB in size. However, a substantially smaller version of MacTeX, BasicTeX, which does not contain Ghostscript or the aforementioned GUI programs, can be used in its stead along with a TeX editor as well.[2][3]
See also
References
- ^ a b "MacTeX - TeX Users Group". tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
- ^ "The Definitive, Non-Technical Introduction to LaTeX, Professional Typesetting and Scientific Publishing". Math Vault. 2015-09-05. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
- ^ "More Packages - MacTeX - TeX Users Group". www.tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
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