MacTeX
| Developer(s) | MacTeX TeXnical working group |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
MacTeX-2016 / June 6, 2016
|
| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.12 |
| Platform | PPC and Intel |
| Size | 2.4 GB |
| Available in | English |
| Type | TeX Live redistribution |
| License | Mixed free licenses |
| Website | www |
MacTeX is a redistribution of TeX Live, a typesetting environment. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform (running on Unix, macOS, and Windows), MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and front-ends. 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.
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 install package contains three subpackages:
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