

- #View full texshop history for mac os
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What I did in the first place, or even if that line of reasoning is correct, I have no idea. So I cleared the History, and it all works now. I noticed that LaTeX-iT has a “History” feature which stores recently-typeset equations.Īnd for some reason, I thought that maybe there was something wonky stuck in the History folder that was causing the recurring crashes. For some reason (I think it was because I was in a faculty meeting and bored), I just opened the program to see what would happen. TeXShop, BibDesk, LaTeXiT, and TeX Live Utility all use /Library/TeX/texbin automatically.First of all, I finally got LaTeX-iT to work again. GUI applications need to be reconfigured for the data structure by using the /Library/TeX/texbin link to find the TeX binaries, but after they are configured once, they will work without modification in the future. The data structure also contains a visible link called /Library/TeX/texbin, which points indirectly to the binary directory of the active TeX distribution. Switching distributions actually modifies only a single symbolic link deep within the data structure. The data structure is ingenious it does not modify TeX distributions in any way. When that happens, all GUI applications are reconfigured automatically, and PATH and MAN variables are reset for command line interaction with the new active distribution. Using the dialog, a different distribution can be made active. The program "TeX Live Utility", installed in /Applications/TeX by MacTeX, contains a menu item called "Configure" which has an item called "Change Default TeX Live Version." This item opens a small dialog window listing all TeX Distributions available on a user's machine, with an indication of the active distribution. Using this structure, TeX Live and Basic TeX easily coexist on a machine. The data structure is placed in /Library/TeX and consists of some carefully designed symbolic links to installed distributions. This data structure is installed by the MacTeX packages. Gerben Wierda and Jerome Laurens designed a data structure to support multiple TeX distributions on a machine. Switching back requires only a singleīutton click due to a feature explained below. Important project to safely update, because they can switch back to the earlier version if they run into trouble. This makes it possible for users in the middle of an When a new version of TeX Live is installed by MacTeX, the new version does not overwrite the previous version. Today, TeX Live (which MacTeX installs) is the standard TeX distribution on the Macintosh. In May, 2006, Thomas Esser announced that he would no longer support teTeX, and suggested that users move to TeX Live.
#View full texshop history for mac os
Several years ago the TeX Users Group introduced an even more extensive distribution called TeX Live, for Mac OS X, Windows, GNU/Linux, and various BSD Unix systems the principal authors are Sebastian Rahtz, Karl Berry, and Staszek Wawrykiewicz.

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On the Macintosh, this distribution was enhanced by Gerben Wierda, who wrote a program called i-Installer to download his enhanced version from the network, to configure it, and to upgrade it periodically.
#View full texshop history mac os x
The enormous collection of programs and support files is called a TeX Distribution.įor a number of years, the standard TeX distribution on Mac OS X and GNU/Linux was teTeX, maintained by Thomas Esser. This machinery consists of Donald Knuth's command line program, which does the actual typesetting, and of an enormous number of fonts, macro packages like LaTeX and ConTeXt, style files, documentation, configuration files, and the like. Users interacting with TeX using a front end program are sometimes unaware of the vast support machinery acting invisibly behind the scene.

If you downloaded MacTeX as recommended under the "Obtaining" tab, double click MacTeX to begin the installation process.įollow the same procedure if instead you obtained BasicTeX.
