MacTeX

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MacTeX Distribution
Developer(s)MacTeX TeXnical working group
Stable release
MacTeX 2024 / March 13, 2024; 12 days ago (2024-03-13)
Operating system
  • macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11, 12, 13, or 14
PlatformArm and Intel
Size5.7 GB
Available inEnglish
TypeTeX Live redistribution
LicenseMixed free licenses
Websitewww.tug.org/mactex/
As ofMarch 2024

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.

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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]

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.[2]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "MacTeX - TeX Users Group". tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  2. ^ "More Packages - MacTeX - TeX Users Group". www.tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-22.

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