| Developer(s) | MacTeX TeXnical working group |
|---|---|
| Stable release | MacTeX 2024 / March 13, 2024; 10 months ago (2024-03-13) |
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| Platform | Arm and Intel |
| Size | 5.7 GB |
| Available in | English |
| Type | TeX Live redistribution |
| License | Mixed free licenses |
| Website | www |
| As of | March 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). 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.
Details
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:
- TeX Live
- GUI applications
- Ghostscript (an open source version of PostScript)
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.
See also
References
- ^ "MacTeX - TeX Users Group". tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
- "More Packages - MacTeX - TeX Users Group". www.tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
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