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MacTeX is a free redistribution of TeX Live, a typesetting environment based on TeX. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform (running on Unix , macOS , and Windows ), MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and front-ends (such as TeXShop and BibDesk ). [ 1 ]
Properties of TeX editors 2 ; Name Inverse search [Note 6] DDE support [Note 7] Organises Projects Menu for inserting symbols Document comparison Spell-checking Multiple undo-redo
For macOS there is MacTeX, [17] which comprises the full TeX Live distribution as well as some additional tools for using TeX on the Mac, most notably the editor TeXShop and the bibliography manager BibDesk. Similar to Basic MikTeX in MikTeX, a substantially smaller download, BasicTeX, can also be used for Mac as well. [18]
AMS-LaTeX and AMS-TeX - classes and packages developed for the American Mathematical Society; extensions of LaTeX and TeX respectively [8]; CircuiTikZ - adds creation of electrical networks (adds on to TikZ) [9]
TeXShop was developed by American mathematician Richard Koch. It was modeled on NeXTstep's bundled TeXview.app and developed for the then new macOS user interface Aqua and capitalized on the native PDF support of that version of the Macintosh operating system, [1] which was itself based on NeXTSTEP's successor OPENSTEP.
pdfTeX is included in most modern distributions of LaTeX and ConTeXt (including TeX Live, MacTeX, and MiKTeX) [3] and used as the default TeX engine. [4] [5] The main difference between TeX and pdfTeX is that whereas TeX outputs DVI files, pdfTeX can output PDF files directly.
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TeXworks is free and open-source application software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS.It is a Qt-based graphical user interface to the TeX typesetting system and its LaTeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX extensions.