Distribution of TeX typesetting software for Mac computers
MacTeX Distribution
Developer(s)
MacTeX TeXnical working group
Stable release
MacTeX 2024
/ March 13, 2024; 2 months ago (2024-03-13)
Operating system
macOS 10.14, 10.15, 11, 12, 13, or 14
Platform
Arm and Intel
Size
5.7 GB
Available in
English
Type
TeX Live redistribution
License
Mixed free licenses
Website
www.tug.org/mactex/
As of
March 2024
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.
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