MacTeX

MacTeX Distribution
Developer(s)	MacTeX TeXnical working group
Stable release	MacTeX-2017 / June 4, 2017
Operating system	Mac OS X 10.10 - 10.12
Platform	Intel
Size	3.0 GB
Available in	English
Type	TeX Live redistribution
License	Mixed free licenses
Website	www.tug.org/mactex/

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:

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
Ghostscript

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