Development status Active Platform PPC and Intel | Operating system Size 2.4 GB | |
Developer(s) MacTeX TeXnical working group Stable release MacTeX-2016 / June 6, 2016; 8 months ago (2016-06-06) | ||
MacTeX is a redistribution of TeX Live, a typesetting environment. While TeX Live is designed to be cross-platform (running on Unix, macOS, and Windows), MacTeX includes Mac-specific utilities and front-ends. 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.
MacTeX is packaged and distributed by the MacTeX TeXnical working group, a subgroup of TeX Users Group (TUG). TeX Live is distributed by the TUG, making MacTeX less a fork of TeX Live than a customised repackaging.
The MacTeX install package contains three subpackages:
References
MacTeX Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA