MacTeX DistributionDeveloper(s)MacTeX TeXnical working groupStable releaseMacTeX 2021
   / April 1, 2021; 13 months agoOperating systemmacOS 10.14, 10.15, 11, or 12PlatformArm and IntelSize4.4 GBAvailable inEnglishTypeTeX Live redistributionLicenseMixed free licensesWebsitewww.tug.org/mactex/
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] 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.



Details[edit]
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 full MacTeX install package contains three subpackages:[1]

TeX Live
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 (A Mac-based TeX editor)
Ghostscript (an open source version of PostScript)
A substantially smaller version of MacTeX, BasicTeX, which does not contain Ghostscript or the aforementioned GUI programs, can be used instead along with a TeX editor as well.[2]

See also[edit]
BibDesk
MiKTeX
TeX Live
TeXShop
References[edit]

^ Jump up to: a b "MacTeX - TeX Users Group". tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-22.

^ "More Packages - MacTeX - TeX Users Group". www.tug.org. Retrieved 2019-07-22.


External links[edit]
Official website