Mac Installation

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Welcome to the Macintosh! Nowadays it's not a big difference how to use TeX on MacOS or any other Unix.

Distributions and Tools

• gwTeX via iInstaller, auto-updatable distribution
• XeTeX, aTeX processor that uses special typography features of OS X (available via iInstaller).
• iTeXMac, TeX Editor and PDF viewer

Installation

• If you have a broad bandwith internet connection, use Gerben Wierda's iInstaller to install the latest TeXlive tree and (afterwards) the latest ConTeXt beta.
• You can also buy a TeXlive DVD.

MacOS 9 (Classic)

Unfortunately it's not possible to use ConTeXt on MacOS Classic. You can get as far as creating the ConTeXt formats with one of the Classical Distributions, but ConTeXt's Perl scripts won't work with MacPerl (I tried hard...). Perhaps the problems could be solved, but who'll put a lot of effort in a deprecated system?

So everything else on this page refers to MacOS X.

Links

• Mac-TeX (Penn State University)