MacTeX

MacTeX is a redistribution of TeX Live, a typesetting environment. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform (running on Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows), MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and front-ends. It is also pre-configured to work out-of-the-box with Mac OS X 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.

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 MacTeX-2015 install package contains three subpackages:

• TeXLive-2015
• GUI-Applications
  • BibDesk
  • Excalibur (a LaTeX spell checker)
  • LaTeXiT (a LaTeX equation editor)
  • TeX Live Utility (a utility to update, install or remove parts of TeX Live)
  • TeXShop
• Ghostscript 9.16

External links

• Official website
• MacTeX TeXnical working group
• TeX on Mac OS X Wiki