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* [http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html TeXshop], a simple, elegant TeX editor and PDF viewer.
 
* [http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html TeXshop], a simple, elegant TeX editor and PDF viewer.
 
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* [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==
 
==Installation==

Revision as of 14:24, 28 June 2005

< 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 gwTeX via 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).
  • 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.

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.

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