Important project to safely update, because they can switch back to the earlier version if they run into trouble. This makes it possible for users in the middle of an When a new version of TeX Live is installed by MacTeX, the new version does not overwrite the previous version. Today, TeX Live (which MacTeX installs) is the standard TeX distribution on the Macintosh. In May, 2006, Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer support teTeX, and suggested that users move to TeX Live.
#TEXSHOP DERIVATIVE FOR MAC OS#
Several years ago the TeX Users Group introduced an even more extensive distribution called TeX Live, for Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux, and various BSD Unix systems the principal authors are Sebastian Rahtz, Karl Berry, and Staszek Wawrykiewicz. On the Macintosh, this distribution was enhanced by Gerben Wierda, who wrote a program called i-Installer to download his enhanced version from the network, to configure it, and to upgrade it periodically. The enormous collection of programs and support files is called a TeX Distribution.įor a number of years, the standard TeX distribution on Mac OS X and GNU/Linux was teTeX, maintained by Thomas Esser.
This machinery consists of Donald Knuth's command line program, which does the actual typesetting, and of an enormous number of fonts, macro packages like LaTeX and ConTeXt, style files, documentation, configuration files, and the like. Users interacting with TeX using a front end program are sometimes unaware of the vast support machinery acting invisibly behind the scene. If you downloaded MacTeX as recommended under the "Obtaining" tab, double click MacTeX to begin the installation process.įollow the same procedure if instead you obtained BasicTeX.