====== LaTeX on MacOS X ======




===== Install =====

  - [[http://www.tug.org/mactex/|The MacTeX Distribution]]: this is the new "standard" for LaTeX on MacOS, it is based on the official TUG TeX Live distribution. Just install the [[ftp://tug.org/tex/mactex/MacTeX.dmg|MacTeX.dmg]] (full TeX Live distribution from TUG, unmodified). When using the install package, there is an extra button at bottom left labeled "Customize"; by clicking it, you can choose what to install: install just the TeX Live distribution, and uncheck anything else. You can install the other stuff independently.
  - You need to install **ghostscript** and **ImageMagick** as well. We suggest **not** to use the above MacTeX to install them, but rather to use [[http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki|MacPorts]].



===== Typesetting with LaTeX =====

You can use [[http://aquamacs.org/|Aquamacs]], //an easy-to-use, Mac-style Emacs for Mac OS X// (sic.). It comes with [[http://aquamacs.org/latex.shtml|LaTeX support]] built in. The only caveat is that you need to install ispell (or aspell) to get the internal spell checker to work. To this purpose you can use [[http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki|MacPorts]] or [[http://people.ict.usc.edu/~leuski/cocoaspell/home.html|cocoAspell]].

On top of Aquamacs (or of your favourite emacs) you can install the [[http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17244|Enhanced Carbon Emacs (ECE) plugin]]: Enhanced Carbon Emacs is now a universal enhancement plugin for arbitrary (unix, carbon, or aqua) emacs distributions (such as Yaced, Aquamacs, CarbonEmacs Tiger, or the native darwin emacs in /usr/bin/emacs). This includes a fully customisable LaTeX editing environment based on AucTeX, RefTeX, Preview and other packages. Basically, ECE is a convenient way to properly install a large number of pre-configured useful packages for LaTeX users, which includes a hack of AUCTeX, that allows to have a more intuitive handling of the "view" command in a macintosh context (in particular, for non-pdftex users willing to preview in pdf).

There are other alternatives, like [[http://itexmac.sourceforge.net/|iTeXMac]] or [[http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/|TeXShop]].

Apple ''Preview.app'' doesn't reload the PDF file when it changes, which is kind of annoying. A good PDF previewer for latex is [[http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/|PDFView]]. You can use [[http://www2.ing.unipi.it/~d9615/homepage/texniscope.html|TeXniscope]] which works with DVIs as well; but it doesn't seem to play well with intel macs.

Check out [[http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/latexit_en.php|LaTeXiT]], handy in combination with Keynote, Powerpoint, or other software in which you want to include latex snippets.  

As for bib files, [[http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/|BibDesk]] is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X; it also allows you to export to HTML and RSS. 

===== Links =====
  * [[http://www.cs.wright.edu/~jslater/mac-tex/mac-tex-intro/mactexintro.html|Getting Started With TeX]]