I'm looking for a TeX environment for Mac OS, a bit like TeXnicCenter for windows. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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This question is better suited to superuser.com – laalto Aug 18 '09 at 06:57
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You got a point there, though after reading this question and this qeustion I thought it would be OK to put it here. – Martijn Aug 18 '09 at 08:38
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2InRe: SO or SU. I'm torn on this one. LaTeX questions as such seem to the good on SO ( http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12918/can-we-have-a-ruling-on-latex-on-stackoverflow ), though "what software" questions might be better on SU from first principles, but that ends up splitting the accumulated knowledge base. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Aug 18 '09 at 14:53
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I recommend the MacTeX distribution. The TeX distribution that it comes with is TeX Live 2008, which is newer than the TeX distribution available though i-Installer (a.k.a ii2). MacTeX also comes with the TeX Live Utility, a graphical interface for the TeX Live package manager for installing, updating, or otherwise managing (La)TeX packages. It also comes with TeXShop, a (La)TeX editor that is comparable to TeXnicCenter (I personally like it much better than TeXnicCenter).
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I use ii2 to manage LaTeX software for the back end and I have used both TextMate (it has a very nice LaTeX bundle) and Emacs (with Auctex) as front ends.
You can get a nice baked-in LaTeX experience in Emacs by using the Aquamacs distribution (I can't use it because I have a non-english keyboard with no Aquamacs-specific mapping. This makes it impossible to use Aquamacs and the '@' symbol at the same time for me).
More important than all of this, especially if you are embarking on a big project like a thesis, get the LaTeX Companion. It will save you tens to hundreds of hours over the course of a large project.
There are also the Mac-specific LaTeX authoring programs:
- TeXShop
- iTexMac2
- TeXMaker
- Lyx (this is somewhat "non-standard", as it abstracts slightly over LaTeX and has its own file format, ".lyx")
- Texmacs (this has the great feature of being written in Scheme)
There is a Mac-specific LaTeX back end called Mactex.
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That shows you how often I need to renew my LaTeX installation (basically, when I get a new computer). – Pinochle Aug 21 '09 at 11:00
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I use LaTeX on my Mac for all my documents. I'm very happy with the MacTex installation I downloaded. I think it's a bundle of TeXLive for the Mac. I use Carbon Emacs for file writing and editing, I don't recall any installation or configuration problems getting it to work with LaTeX. If memory serves me well, though, the MacTex installation includes a more GUI-like editor too.
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I install the tetex distribution from fink, and edit in the fink-install carbon-emacs with auctex.
The result is a vanilla unix-like tex environment, and possibly not what you're looking for (though not knowing anything about TeXnicCenter, or hy you like it I can't say).
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@Will: I'd agree with you if the installation was any work at all, but I use fink for all my "unix" services, and the effort is `fink list tex` followed by `fink install tetex auctex revtex`. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Aug 21 '09 at 16:52
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You can install texlive from fink, which is the successor project to tetex, and include a "textex-like" subinstallation. Fink's texlive package is not up-to-date (it is a year behind at the moment), but that's a whole lot more up-to-date than tetex. – Charles Stewart Dec 31 '09 at 17:38