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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==
* [http://www.rna.nl/tex.html gwTeX] via [http://www.rna.nl/ii.html iInstaller], auto-updatable distribution
* [[XeTeX]], aTeX processor that uses special typography features of OS X (available via iInstaller).
* [http://itexmac.sourceforge.net/ 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 [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)
Welcome to the Macintosh! Nowadays it's not a big difference how to use TeX on MacOS or any other Unix.
==Distributions and Tools==
* [http://www.rna.nl/tex.html gwTeX] via [http://www.rna.nl/ii.html iInstaller], auto-updatable distribution
* [[XeTeX]], aTeX processor that uses special typography features of OS X (available via iInstaller).
* [http://itexmac.sourceforge.net/ 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 [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)