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Latex For Mac

This is the R&A page on installing, configuring andrunningTeX on Mac OS X using i-Installer for theinstallation. It contains links to the current distribution andinformation that I think is useful for TeX users on Mac OS X. Othersources for TeX on Mac OS X info:
  • Will Robertson has produced thiswonderful very short beginner page on installing and usingTeX.
  • Gary Gray and Joseph Slater provide a list of informationabout Mac TeX at http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/.On these pages, you'll find information about the very valuable MacOS X TeX mailing list Gary has set up.
  • Stephan Hochhaus maintains a site at http://latex.yauh.de/index_en.html.

LaTex for Mac Free Download: LaTex for Mac is an amazing editor and a productivity tool for the academic and as well as professional writing. Download LaTex for Mac Free. With the LaTex Mac app, you can edit and typeset the LaTeX right on your desktop PC. TeXstudio is an integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX as easy and comfortable as possible. Therefore TeXstudio has numerous features like syntax-highlighting, integrated viewer, reference checking and various assistants.

A list of questions I have been asked in relation to my distribution is here. You won't believe it, but this wholeinstallation lack of a train wreck actually attracts fan mail. Anedited selection of that fan mail can be found here

Using TeX on Mac OS X

  • LaTeX configuration issue on Mac - unable to typeset. Rmd to PDF fails when including plots, UTF-8 conversion to wide character string.
  • TeXworks is a free and simple working environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX) documents.Inspired by Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X, it makes entry into the TeX world easier for those using desktop operating systems other than OS X.
  • Just what is TeX? Downloading Issues About MacTeX The MacTeX Installer What's in the MacTeX package TeX Live Utility cocoAspell homepage and cocoAspell project: MacTeXtras: optional pieces Multiple TeX Distributions Trying out TeX Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions The Font Cache Bug in Mac.
  • You can obtain LaTeX from CTAN, which is the primary source of distribution for LaTeX. In order for your downloaded LaTeX to be of any use, you have to obtain and set up a TeX system first. You can either install a TeX distribution (see above) or get a TeX system from CTAN.
  • MiKTeX for Mac is distributed as a disk image (.dmg) file.If you double click the disk image file, you will see a Finder window: To install MiKTeX, simply drag the MiKTeX icon onto the Applications shortcut icon. This will install the MiKTeX Console application and essential support files (executables, frameworks, configuration files). Finishing the setup.

TeX is a typesetting language. Instead of visually formattingyour text, you type your text combined with commands in a plain textfile. That file is your TeX source. You then use TeX to produce thefinal layout. Contrary to a normal word processor, the source and theoutput are basically separated in two different files.

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TeX itself consists of a set of programs and a huge collectionof support files containing macros for all kind of layouts(presentations, books, articles, special graphical tricks, etc). Thesemacros make life easy for you. Instead of doing everything yourself inbasic TeX commands, the macros provide an easy-to-use set of commands.For instance, the widest used macro collection is called LaTeX and youcould type something like:

Macros? Commands? Typesetting? Cant'tunderstand a word of the technical gibberish so far? DON'T PANIC! I think this page is not(yet) for you. Please go here first andthen return and start again at 'Using TeX on Mac OS X'.

After running the TeX program on that source you will getsomething like this:

The above may seem complicated. But generally you have seenalmost everything to make beautifully formatted documents. Outlook for mac 2011 export to pst. The rest isup to you: working in TeX frees you from thinking about visual layoutalmost completely. You can do what you should do: think about content.It is like having your own personal professional typesetter who worriesabout layout and does a very good job at it.

So, to use TeX you need basically 3 things:

  • An editor to edit plain text (enter your text and your TeXcommands)
  • The TeX program for your platform
  • A way to view the result

TeX is able to produce PDF (Portable Document Format, a type offile that can be viewed and printed on most computer systems) directlyfrom TeX sources. This is called pdfTeX.

TeX originally was only capable of producing the deviceindependent DVI file format from the ASCII TeX source. To view or printDVI, the device independent data needs to be translated to a device.For instance an X11 or Windows user interface, or a PostScript orLaserjet printer. Sometimes, the users have to produce a printer formatfirst (like PostScript), which then again is rendered on the screen bya PostScript viewer (like GhostView).

Mac OS X has a Unix core and it is therefore possible to use aUnix TeX distribution on Mac OS X. The source for TeX is TeXLive, the central TeX development system for Unix and otherplatforms (like Windows), which is published on CD once in a while. TeXLive is huge, programs (for a few platforms) and the foundation(macro's, fonts, etc.) together add up to 1 full DVD. The chiefcoordinator (there are quite a few maintainers of the various parts) ofTeX Live is Sebastian Rahtz. A second very popular TeX (for Unix only)is teTeX, which has been created and is maintained by ThomasEsser. A big advantage of teTeX is that it comes with a well chosen setof support files: teTeX-texmf.

Apart from TeX (and GhostScript), the engine, you need a way tocreate the TeX source and view the output. If you are into basics andlack of comfort, you can use the existing TextEdit.app to edit yourfiles, use the command line to run pdfTeX, and view the result withPreview.app or Acrobat. If you are less masochistically inclined, thereare several frontends available that handle the edit-typeset-viewphases for you. Some of them rely on the availability of a distributionlike mine to do the work behind the scenes, other may be richer andpack their own TeX distribution. Here are a few frontends:

  • TeXShop,the oldest Mac OS X TeX frontend by Richard Koch (which won an AppleDesign Award in 2002).
  • iTeXMac byJérôme Laurens. Newer and by many considered to be morepowerful but also more complex.
  • ScientificAssistant is a Document Management and Scientific WordprocessingSystem for MacOS X. The application offers natural editing ofmathematics, professional typesetting (LaTeX) and database storage.
  • Mac-Emacs,this one is for Emacs-geeks, I guess.
and tools that may be used when a TeX is installed:

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  • EquationService, a program that provides a way to use TeX to create yourequations in other applications.
  • EquationEditor, a program that provides a way to use TeX to create yourequations in other applications.
  • BibDesk,a BIBTeX manager.
  • iStorm,iStorm is a peer-to-peer collaboration program with shared colorchalkboard and Baby TeX, Baby Math. It allows a group of people composea rich text document with most Quicktime compatible media as well asTeX equations and Math calculations both of which allow fancy inlinesubstitution with source code attached in a clickable symbol.

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(links here are only added at the explicit request of the link owner, Ido not maintain this list myself).

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To obtain the distribution, click the link below.
While downloading, please skim read the rest of the page.
Users who run into trouble often write us without noticing that the solution is on this very page.
MacTeX-2019 requires macOS 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, or 10.15
Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, or Catalina
MacTeX.pkg
[ approximately 3.9G - 08 May 2019]
The md5 sum is 927a9bcd8864789c7f33dbd01f8eb8c9
Download with Safari strongly recommended
Special Notes for Catalina


MacTeX-2019 works fine on Catalina once it is installed. When Catalina was first released to developers, Apple said that install packages for Catalina must be notarized and software installed must adopt a hardened runtime. These conditions hold for BasicTeX-2019 and Ghostscript, but not for MacTeX-2019. However, the requirements have been turned off for most betas of Catalina and seem to be still off in the release version, so MacTeX-2019 should install without trouble.
In one beta version of Catalina, perhaps beta 5, the restriction was turned on and the MacTeX-2019 install package refused to install.An experimental notarized version of MacTeX-2019 installed fine during that betaperiod and is available at http://tug.org/~koch/MacTeX-2019.pkg. It will replace the old MacTeX-2019 install package as soon as Apple reinstates the notarization restriction.

After downloading, move the file MacTeX.pkg to the desktop or another convenient spot,and double click it to install. Follow the straightforward instructions. Installation on a recent Macintoshtakes about ten minutes.
At the end of installation, the installer will report 'Success.' But sometimes, the installer puts up a dialog saying 'Verifying..' and then the install hangs. In all cases known to us, rebooting the Macintosh fixes this problem. After the reboot, install again.
If other problems are reported during installation, skip to the section 'Installation Errors' below.
MacTeX writes a symbolic link /Library/TeX/texbin which indirectly points to the TeX Live binary directory. Configure your GUI programs to use this link. The GUI programs we supply should automatically configure themselves. On older systems, you may have seen the link /usr/texbinwhich did the same thing. When Apple produced El Capitan, they modified the system so users could no longer write directly to the /usr directory and this rule remains in effect today. Therefore we replaced /usr/texbin with /Library/TeX/texbin.
MacTeX does not overwrite the TeX Distribution from the previous year. Users who run into trouble can switch to the previous distribution until the new distribution is fixed. Long ago we installed a Preference Pane which could do this switching, but this functionality is now in TeX Live Utility, which is in /Applications/TeX. To switch, use the Configure menu item 'Select Default TeX Live Version.'
MacTeX completely configures TeX, so after installationit is ready to use. Go to '/Applications/TeX/Docs and Spell Utilities/READ ME FIRST.pdf' and read this short document to get started. The document leads a new user through the complete process of writing and typesetting a short LaTeX document. The location '/Applications/TeX/Docs and Spell Utilities/Documents' also contains 'What is installed', which lists all the components of MacTeX and their installation locations.
MacTeX installs TeX Live, which contains TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and virtually every TeX-related style file and font. TeX Live is maintained by TeX User Groups across the world.TeX Live is compiled from the same sources for all platforms: Macintosh, Windows, Linux, Unix.
MacTeX also installs Ghostscript, an open source version of Postscript,and it installs the GUI programsTeXShop, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and BibDesk. In '/Applications/TeX/Docs and Spell Utilities/Spelling' it contains an install package for cocoAspell, a spelling service which does not mark LaTeX commands as misspelled.

Updating from an Earlier MacTeX Installation

If you previously installed MacTeX, you may already have your own favorite front ends and GUI programs. Perhaps, in addition, you have Ghostscript from another source such as MacPorts or HomeBrew. In these cases, it is easy to install just the pieces you need.Download MacTeX using the earlier link. Double click to install. Several pages of informationwill be displayed; one of the last is shown below. Click the 'Customize' button to obtain a page allowing you to select one or more of 'TeX Live', 'Ghostscript', 'GUI Applications.'It is not necessary to remove the earlier TeX Live installation before installing a new one, and indeed we don't recommend that because MacTeX makes it easy to revert to the older version if the new version has a flaw. If you really need the extra space, other sections of these web pages explain how to remove older versions of MacTeX.
Installation Errors

In almost all cases, this error is caused by a faulty download. There is an easy way to check this. Go to /Applications/Utilities and run Terminal. Type

md5
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If you are having trouble downloading MacTeX, note that the download link points to a 'multiplexer' site which parcels out requests to various up-to-date CTAN mirrors. Occasionally users have trouble getting the package from this multiplexer. In that case, choose a specific mirror on this mirror page.
MacTeX is a very large package. If your network is noisy, you might want to try downloadingand installing BasicTeX. See Smaller Download.BasicTeX is very much smaller, and yet has most files, fonts, and programs to process TeX,so this is a rapid way to get a working TeX. BasicTeX need not be uninstalled beforeinstalling MacTeX, so once you convince yourself that our packages work, you can return to themain task of installing MacTeX. TUG strongly recommends the full MacTeX for most users, includingbeginners,
So far, we've given alternatives for bad downloads. But if your download has the correct md5sum, and you still get a message that installation failed, it is time to click 'MacTeX Installer Support' at the bottom of this page and ask for help.


Sometimes at the end of installation, the installer will report 'The installation failedThe Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.'and a space. Then drag the install package icon 'MacTeX.pkg' and drop it on the Terminal window.Push RETURN. Terminal will print a message and then a long item with letters and numbers.Compare this number to the md5 sum at the top of this page just under the MacTeX.pkg link.If the two numbers are different, your download was defective and you download again.If you downloaded with a third party browser, we recommend trying Safari for the new download.TeX Live 2019 and the various GUI programs installed by MacTeX are up to date as of April, 2019. But various pieces may have been updated since then. Each of our GUI programs has a menu item called 'Check for Updates.' Select this item to update the program to the current version. The TeX Live command line files are updated daily. To install these updates, use TeX Live Utility in /Applications/TeX.

The program xdvi requires at least XQuartz 2.7.9. If you use this program, update XQuartz to the latest version at http://www.xquartz.org.

TeX Live DVD

Free copies of TeX Live are available over the internet, but this can be problematic if yourinternet connection is unstable. Members of the TeX User Group (TUG) receive a free DVD containing the full TeX Live for all common platforms. TUG also sells this DVD to others. For details, click on the TUG icon at top right.

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