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< [[Installation hints]] | [[TeX Distributions]] >
Welcome to the Macintosh! Nowadays it's not a big difference how to use TeX on MacOS or any other Unix.
==Distributions and Tools==
The first stop for just about every ConTeXt user on the Mac should be [http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html gwTeX] via [http://ii2.sourceforge.net iInstaller], which is an auto-updatable (re-)distribution. This installs everything necessary for a basic TeX foundation. The i-Installer also includes a ConTeXt updater package, for handling new releases.
Beyond this, there may be other tools that interest you:
* [[XeTeX]], is an alternative TeX engine that uses special typography features of OS X (available via iInstaller).
* [http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html TeXshop], a simple, elegant TeX editor and PDF viewer.
* [[iTeXMac]], a more fully featured, but sometimes more complex, TeX editor and PDF viewer
* [http://www.ing.unipi.it/~d9615/homepage/texniscope.html 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.
==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 [http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/versions.html 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==
* [http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ Mac-TeX] (Penn State University)
[[Category:Installation]]
Welcome to the Macintosh! Nowadays it's not a big difference how to use TeX on MacOS or any other Unix.
==Distributions and Tools==
The first stop for just about every ConTeXt user on the Mac should be [http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html gwTeX] via [http://ii2.sourceforge.net iInstaller], which is an auto-updatable (re-)distribution. This installs everything necessary for a basic TeX foundation. The i-Installer also includes a ConTeXt updater package, for handling new releases.
Beyond this, there may be other tools that interest you:
* [[XeTeX]], is an alternative TeX engine that uses special typography features of OS X (available via iInstaller).
* [http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html TeXshop], a simple, elegant TeX editor and PDF viewer.
* [[iTeXMac]], a more fully featured, but sometimes more complex, TeX editor and PDF viewer
* [http://www.ing.unipi.it/~d9615/homepage/texniscope.html 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.
==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 [http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/versions.html 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==
* [http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/ Mac-TeX] (Penn State University)
[[Category:Installation]]
