<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 3, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Annika Pfluger wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Danielle,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I use TeTex (Latex) with TexShop (the interface for using Latex) on my Mac.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>First you need to make sure that you have the Apple Developer Tools installed on your mac and then install Fink Commander (<A href="http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net">http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net</A>/). Launch Fink Commander and search for TexTex and run the full installation.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The last step is to install TexShop (<A href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/texshop.html">http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/texshop.html</A>). Launch TexShop and change a couple of the default paths in preferences:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- use /sw/bin for the path to pdftex</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>- use /usr/local/bin for the path to latex</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There are a lot of steps, but it should all run pretty easily once you get started and it's all free. Good luck!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Annika</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I would like to add a little context for those that may be confused about the differences in the advice being suggested for installing TeTex.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are two popular package managers for Unix software on Mac OS X: Fink (<A href="http://fink.sourceforge.net">http://fink.sourceforge.net</A>/) and Darwin Ports (<A href="http://darwinports.opendarwin.org">http://darwinports.opendarwin.org</A>/). Fink and Darwin Ports allow a user to build and install software from source automatically; they both deal with any dependencies that may be required to install the software. Fink and Darwin Ports require Apple's developers tools to be installed. The CDs or DVD that came with your Mac has the developer tools on them; you can also create an Apple Developer Connection account for free and download them from <A href="http://developer.apple.com">http://developer.apple.com</A>/.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Annika's instructions are for using Fink, which is a fine way of getting TeTex onto a machine. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If the plan is to install other Unix packages--not everything you may want has a Mac OS X-style installer--using Fink or Darwin Ports makes that easier than doing it manually with downloading source code, building things in the correct order, figuring out dependencies, etc.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Bottom line: because of flexibility offered by Mac OS X, there are different ways of accomplishing the same task, depending on the situation.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Okay, back to our regularly scheduled program. ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> -- Al</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">______________________________</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Albert Willis</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Information Services and Technology</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Lucida Grande"><A href="mailto:awillis@mit.edu">awillis@mit.edu</A></FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>