Mac Installation
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Minimal ConTeXt
The "ConTeXt minimals" distribution is the recommended way to use ConTeXt on any OS. For a Mac tutorial see the mac section under ConTeXt Minimals
MacTeX
A straightforward way to to install ConTeXt on Mac OS X is via the MacTeX distribution. The distribution includes TeXShop and TeXworks editors, TeX Live Utility for managing updates, and many other goodies. It is highly recommended to use at least MacTeX version 2011.
- Download and follow the instructions (if you have a broad bandwith internet connection)
- You can also buy a TeXlive DVD (if you are a member of a TeX user group you often get it for free),
- or download and install a TeXlive image from the web.
TeXshop and TeXwokrs
Typically, both editors work out of the box, but if you are using version earlier than those shipped with MacTeX 2011 (TeXShop 2.42) you need to configure engines for ConTeXt manually.
More Links
- MacTeX Home Page (MacTeX at TUG)
- Mac OS X TeX/LaTeX Web Site (Penn State University)
- TeXshop, a simple, elegant TeX editor and PDF viewer.
- iTeXMac, a more fully featured, but sometimes more complex, TeX editor and PDF viewer
- TeXniscope is an interesting, auto-updating PDF- and DVI viewer, especially helpful when you're updating documents from the command line or otherwise outside of the above-mentioned integrated editor/viewers.
- Mac Uninstall Software
- There are more Text Editors that support ConText.
- PDFView is a lightweight Mac OS X application to display PDF files with auto-update and PDFSync function.
- How-to articles about Mac OS, for example how to uninstall applications on mac. Opportunity to submit questions.
- Mac Uninstaller
