You can get the distribution from the web site or from any of its mirrors. On OS X my distribution of choice is MacTeX. To compile any LaTeX document you will need to have a TeX distribution installed.

I hope you ﬁnd the following pages useful and would be happy if you drop some comments!

$latex for mac os x$

Scrivener professional writing tool - optional.

R the statistical/plotting tool - optional.

The LaTeX environment I introduce here is based upon the following tools. However, all this comfort requires some conﬁguration work ﬁrst and this might not be completely easy, especially compared to Linux setups, where you just need to call aptitude install blabla. The conﬁguration is supposed to be easy to use and in particular convenient, i. e., not having to invoke (pdf)latex over and over again. Most of which should be exchangeable with the modules of your choice, especially regarding the editor. My conﬁguration is build on the usage of diﬀerent building blocks. Since I have been using LaTeX under Mac OS X for quite a while now, I’d like to write down my experiences and especially my conﬁgurations here, to share it both with you and my future self. This page is ongoing work, thus please be patient until I ﬁnished the documentation.

Latex for mac os x