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Obtaining TeXShop

If you just want to upgrade to the latest TeXShop, get

But TeXShop is just a front end to TeX; you also need a TeX distribution. All new users and everyone else who wants to upgrade everything should skip down to "Obtaining TeXShop and TeX Live" below.

Below is a list of changes made in various versions of TeXShop.

TeXShop has configuration files for macros, applescripts, key bindings, and the like. It comes with default configurations already installed. After you have used the program for a time, you may want to consider modified configurations from other users. Here is a link to these files:

Obtaining TeXShop and TeX Live

The MacTeX Working Group from the Tex User Group (TUG) constructed an install package which install everything needed to run TeX on Mac OS X in one step. This package is free, and uses Apple's standard installer; installation takes about four minutes and is automatic.

The package, MacTeX-2007, is large (703 MB) and installs everything needed to run TeX, including the full distribution of TeX Live 2007 from the TeX Users Group, the support packages Ghostscript, ImageMagick, and Font Utilities, the GUI front ends TeXShop, BibDesk, LaTeXiT, and Excalibur, and Gerben Wierda's i-Installer. An "optional install" option is provided for users who only want to install a subset of these things. This package installs TeXShop in /Applications/TeX, but may install an earlier version of the program. If you install but do not get the current version, replace it by the version of TeXShop on this web site.

MacTeX-2007 is available by going to www.tug.org/mactex.

More information about this package is available at the same MacTeX site, www.tug.org/mactex.

Another way to get the package is to join TUG; the package is on the DVD sent immediately to new members and once a year to continuing members. This DVD contains extra front-ends for Mac OS X and many other useful TeX utilities. It also contains complete TeX distributions for Windows, Linux, and other Unix systems.

TUG membership benefits include three issues of TUGBoat, the journal of the organization, and additional CD's containing the CTAN TeX archive of style files, packages, fonts, documentation, etc. For details on joining, see http://www.tug.org.

Other MacTeX Packages

If you do not want to download the gigantic MacTeX-2007, you can into smaller packages developed by the MacTeX Working group. These are available by going to http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html.

The first of these packages, MacTeX-Additions (103 MB), installs everything except TeX: ghostscript, ImageMagick, Font Utilities, and the GUI front ends TeXShop, BibDesk, LaTeXiT, Excalibur, and i-Installer. Strictly speaking, all of this is optional. To run TeX, it suffices to obain TeXShop and a TeX installation.

The three main TeX distributions available at the site are BasicTeX (39.7 MB), gwTeX (321 MB), and TeXLive-2007-Dev (627 MB). All three are remarkably capable. The first is a subset of TeX Live designed for easy download by users with limited download speed. The second is Gerben Wierda's alternate modern TeX distribution based on TeX Live; it is a remarkably useful subset. The third is the complete distribution of TeX Live, the reference distribution of TeX maintained by TeX User Groups across the world.

Let's summarize. To use TeX on Mac OS X, it suffices to install TeXShop and one of BasicTeX, gwTeX, or TeXLive-2007-Dev. For a more complete installation, install MacTeX-2007, but then upgrade TeXShop to the latest version from this site.

Other Versions of TeXShop

Here are other versions of TeXShop, just in case: