[OS X TeX] Which distribution?

[Holger Frauenrath]

Read TeX on MacOS X at http://www.rna.nl/tex.html. I think you will find 
answerws to all your questions.

Holger



On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 09:06 AM, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I will get a PowerBook within the next few days and I need to get a
> good TeX distribution for it (MacOS X).
>
> I have found several of them on the WWW, but I don't know which one I
> should choose. I want to be kind of up-to-date with the TeX packages.
>
> As far as I know are teTeX distributions (like iMacTeX or TeXShop
> which are based on it) not up-to-date. (Please correct me if I am
> wrong.)
>
> The next TeX-Live will also support MacOS X, what I have been told.
> But when will it came out?
>
> I don't think that TeX-Live has a GUI. Could it be done easily to
> install iMacTeX (or other) first and replace the packages later with
> those of TeX-Live?
>
> I would like to have
> - a powerful TeX distribution,
> - which runs nativly on MacOS X
> - and has a nice GUI.
> - It should be free,
> - still supported and
> - has it's packages up-to-date.
> - It also should use the standard TeX tree (TeX-Directory-Standard, TDS)
>   like TeX-Live does.
>
> Thanks a lot for any suggestion.
>
> Claus.
>
>
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