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Once you have opened the zip file and run the installer you can use TeXShop to create, edit, and typeset your documents. To get LaTeX for the Mac: go to the MacTeX distribution page and download the installer package. To get LaTeX for the PC: go to and follow their download and installation instructions.
There are free versions of LaTeX available online for both the PC and the Mac.
PCTeX is a one-installation-does-it-all program, but it has a fee. Many campus computers have PCTeX installed on them. Installing LaTeX on your personal computer Each allows you to write in LaTeX and access your files from any computer with an Internet connection. You can create an account on Overleaf ( ) or ShareLaTeX ( ). The LaTeX Project Home Page has additional information. Most mathematicians and many other people use LaTeX to typeset papers, exams, books, and more. In Finder, TeXShop documents will still use the original icon (designed by Jérôme Laurens and later re-constructed by William Adams for its use with retina displays) for associated LaTeX documents.LaTeX is a system for high-quality technical typesetting. There is a support forum, which is administered by the German project .Ī new TeXShop dock icon, designed by Thiemo Gamma, has been bundled with Release 3.39. Version 2.28 was released on 7 November 2009 as part of the TeX Live 2009 release of MacTeX.įor users of OS X v.10.2 and 10.3, Release 1.43 remains available (as well as v1.35e and 1.19 for 10.1.5 and earlier).įor users of OS X v.10.4 through 10.6, Release 2.47 remains available (10.5 or higher is strongly recommended).
Version 2.26 in universal binary was released on 17 March 2009, requiring Mac OS X v.
This technology also allows jumping from preview to code and vice versa without including any special style file, but is much more reliable than PDF search, especially for documents that include mathematical formulae. Starting with version 2.18, TeXShop has included support for SyncTeX. The Tiger version of TeXShop is capable of jumping from preview to code and vice versa without pdfsync.sty, using the PDF search technology built into Tiger.
Also, with version 1.35 TeXShop was extended with XeTeX support. From TeXShop 1.35 onward this also works with multipart documents, which are joined by "\include".
In fact, TeXShop makes it possible, thanks first to "pdfsync.sty", to switch back and forth between code and preview easily, jumping at a corresponding spot, simply by a CMD-click. The program (then version 1.19) won the 2002 Apple Design Award of Best Mac Open Source Port for its capability to display scientific and technical documents created in TeX format. TeXShop requires an existing TeX installation and is currently bundled with the MacTeX distribution. Lacking the TeX eq -> eps Service which TeXview afforded, other apps such as LaTeXiT.app were developed to provide Service support. Mitsuhiro Shishikura enhanced it by adding the ability to transfer mathematical expressions directly into Keynote presentations. TeXShop was modeled on NeXTstep's bundled TeXview.app and developed for the then new OS X user interface Aqua and capitalized on the native PDF support of that version of the Macintosh operating system, which was itself based on NeXTstep's successor OpenStep. It was developed by the American mathematician Richard Koch. TeXShop is a free LaTeX and TeX editor and previewer for OS X.