Decision Guidance ⇒ Download LaTeX on Apple Macbook

[esong_98]

I've gone to several Latex sites to download an editor on a MacBook Air laptop that uses the OS system. However, once the download is complete, I'm never able to open up the program to start a new document or edit an old one. Sometimes I get a message that the program is incompatable with an OS system, even though I'm at an Apple Latex website. Any suggestions? Anyone can give me a recipe how to down load Latex on a mac? What is the best editor to use on a mac?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

MacTeX is definitely the best choice for the Macbook. Click the link for download and instructions.

On Mac computers, TeXshop is a popular LaTeX editor. MacTeX provides it. I'm using MacTeX with TeXworks as editor, this one is also contained in MacTeX.

Stefan

[ErnestBlair]

The cheapest, most stable, most popular option is to install MacTeX. It is downloadable as an all-in-one package file (.pkg); just double-click and you're good to go.

MacTeX comes with a few editors, namely TUG's TeXworks and the acclaimed TeXShop, but you can also get TeXstudio for Mac as well.

You will find that, as OS X is a UNIX-based environment, working with TeXnology may prove to be a little simpler than doing so under Windows.

[Johannes_B]

Good advice, i removed the link to the writing service, though. It looked like advertizing, and we don't like ads