| Package |
Description |
Current Version |
Last Time I Updated |
License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcroTeX |
Education Bundle (free) and Presentation Bundle ($29) The AcroTeX Education Bundle contains support packages for designing the screen size of your PDF, for creating graphics overlays, for writing interactive exercises and quizzes (with or without solutions), and for inserting Acrobat form elements and embedding JavaScript into the document. The AcroTeX Presentation Bundle is a collection of LaTeX packages and graphics files used to create eye-popping presentations. There are possibly two uses for this package: |
- |
1/30/06 |
free/$29 |
| AlphaX |
Editor, supports multiple programming
languages, built on (included) TCL scripting language. Interface can be
user modified by editing TCL scripts. Leopard users should download the Tiger version. |
(Version 8 release 2) 8.0.2 |
2/26/08 |
Share: $30 |
| AlphaTK |
Editor, platform independent. Supports multiple programming languages, written in TCL scripting language. Interface can be user modified by editing TCL scripts. | 8.3fc7 |
5/14/04 |
Share: $40 |
| AquaTkbibtex |
AquaTkbibtex is an application launcher, written in AppleScript, for tkbibtex. tkbibtex is a portable editor and browser for BibTeX files (LaTeX bibliographies), written in Tcl/Tk. | 1.3 |
6/21/06 |
Free (GNU) |
| AutoTeX |
Automatically processes a file each time it is modified (i.e. LaTeX automatically on save, BibTeX+LaTeX, etc). | 2.10 |
4/28/07 |
Free |
| BBEdit |
Editor, supports
multiple programming languages. Requires BBEdit plug-ins or
TeX-Scripts-BBEdit below in practice. |
7.0.2 |
411/26/04 |
Pay: $119 |
| BBEdit extension, ChkTeX |
Tools to call ChkTeX from
BBEdit. |
1.2/1.6.4 |
2/28/08 |
GPL |
| BBEdit extensions for iTeXMac |
Tools to call iTeXMac from
BBEdit. |
1.0 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| BBEdit extensions for teTeX |
Tools to call teTeX from BBEdit. |
1.9 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| BBEdit
plug-ins |
Enhances BBEdit/BBEdit Lite/TextWrangler interaction with TeX
engines and viewers. |
1.6 |
1/17/03 | Free/Donation |
| BibDesk |
Full featured bibliographic databasedesigned to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. BibDesk also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer plus other features. Works as a Service with Cocoa applications. See bibutils. |
1.3.18 |
7/30/08 |
Free |
| BibUtils |
The bibutils program set interconverts between various bibliography formats using a common XML intermediate. For example, you can use it as an import filter to Bibdesk: 1) Choose File->Open Using Filter 2) Enter "/usr/local/bin/isi2xml | /usr/local/bin/xml2bib" in the "Filter Shell Command" field of the open panel (no quotes)(Note: Bibdesk now supports ISI format directly.). This can be any Unix command to preprocess the input, but it needs to send BibTeX to standard output as the result. 3) Select the ISI file and open it. |
3.27 (intel binary)/3.34 (ppc binary and source) |
7/10/7 |
Free |
| Bookends |
Bibliographic database. Exports and
imports from BibTeX format, amongst others. |
7.7.4 |
5/14/04 |
Pay: $99 |
| ChkTeX |
LaTeX semantic checker |
1.2/1.6.4 |
2/21/08 |
GPL |
| CMacTeX |
Front End, Engine, Viewer, Ghostscript.
Relatively complete distribution. Download, expand, it's installed.
Doesn't get easier. Requires Editor |
4.3 |
5/14/04 |
Share: $35 |
| CocoAspell |
Spelling utility, Service to Cocoa
applications. Unix aspell wrapped by Cocoa interface. (LaTeX parsing,
of course). |
2.0.4 |
7/31/08 |
Free |
| Combine PDFs |
Drop some PDF or picture files on the application or the main window. Reorder or remove pages as you want. Enter some meta information like the Title and save the new PDF. Analysing and processing of PDFs may take a while... |
1.0 |
2/2/05 |
Free |
| ConvTeX |
Converts from LaTeX or LyX format documents to OpenOffice. |
beta |
7/17/07 |
Free |
| DrawAt |
PDFLaTeX replacement for PSfrag (currently works only on MacOS X). (for an alternative that is platform independent, see pdfrack) or WARMFigToPDF below. Note: The RESULTS are platform independent. | 1.0 |
9/28/04 |
GPL |
| Emacs: Platform independent. |
Unix editor ported to MacOS. See Enhanced Carbon Emacs and Fink below. Supports very wide range of programming languages. Enhanced adds menus
for use with LaTeX and includes many packages that are optional
installs for Emacs (I still don't know why auc-tex is not included
standard in Emacs). Note that command-line emacs is installed by
default on your Mac, and Emacs in X-Windows can be installed via Fink
or DarwinPorts. Also see WizzyTeX below. TeX packages for Emacs via Google. Also see the Emacs Wiki, Easymacs and Yet Another LaTeX mode for Emacs. Help on installing AucTeX, Preview LaTeX, and RefTeX LaTeX by Peter Dyballa. (platform independent) |
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12/08/04 |
Free |
| Emacs: Enhanced
Carbon Emacs |
Unix editor ported to Carbon interface.
Supports very wide range of programming languages. Enhanced adds menus
for use with LaTeX and includes many packages that are optional
installs for emacs (I still don't know why auc-tex is not included
standard in emacs). Note that command-line emacs is installed by
default on your Mac, and Emacs in X-Windows can be installed via Fink
or DarwinPorts. Also see Mindlube distribution (sparse, but can use Preview-LaTeX) See Emacs above (platform independent). Also see WizzyTeX below. |
- |
12/08/04 |
Free |
| Emacs: the AquaMacs Distribution |
Unix editor ported to MacOS. See Enhanced Carbon Emacs (above) and Fink below.
AquaMacs is an Aqua-native build of the powerful Emacs text editor. By "Aqua-native," we mean more than just the fact that this version of Emacs runs as a standard OS X application. AquaMacs features extensive customization that enables it to conform better with Apple's standard Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) than standard versions of the editor do. See Emacs above (platform independent). Also see WizzyTeX below. |
1.1 |
7/07 |
Free |
| Emacs: YACED (Yet Another Carbon Emacs Distribution) |
Unix editor ported to MacOS. This project provides individual Apple Installer packages of Carbon Emacs for MacOS X 10.3 and 10.4 and AUCTeX packages for installation into Carbon Emacs. See Enhanced Carbon Emacs (above) and Fink below.
See Emacs above (platform independent). Also see WizzyTeX below. |
0.9 |
4/5/05 |
Free |
| Equation
Service |
Equation renderer, Service to Cocoa
applications (unfortunately, this does not include MS products such as power
point). Can copy rendered equations to applications not supporting
Services. |
1.0 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| Excalibur |
Spelling utility, Service. Checks entire
document, or just one word (LaTeX parsing, of course). |
4.0.2 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| Flashmode |
Flashmode allows simultaneous typesetting of TeX documents as Textures did and still does in classic mode. 4 Versions. BBEdit/TeXniscope, TeXShop/TeXniscope, iTeXMac/iTeXMac, AlphaX/TeXniscope. Requires a G5 for all practical purposes. |
depends |
2/28/08 |
Freeware |
| Fink-X
Window tools/editors (See Fink docs), teTeX... |
This is really a package management
system, but inside you find all of the unix (most?) that exist for
using TeX, etc. Includes Emacs, teTeX, xdvi, ghostscript, ghostview,
epstopdf, ps2pdf (note: Apple includes pstopdf which seems to work
better for me)... It's a very long list. Also see Fink Commander for a
GUI interface. For the Unix savvy/inclined/interested. Can be
challenging to a novice. |
NA |
12/08/04 |
Free |
| the Fontspec package |
This is a package for XeTeX that provides an interface to Mac OS X fonts in LaTeX with all access to advanced AAT and OpenType features. | ? |
3/23/05 | Free |
| Fonts: OpenType TeX Fonts |
Postscript Type 1 Latin Modern fonts to Opentype, including lots of non-standard TeX-like ligatures. Every fount is included in a total of 11 families. Hermann Zapf's Euler maths fonts to OpenType; well, just the regular alphabets, actually, none of the symbols. |
? |
3/23/05 | Free |
| Grapher (Already in your Utilities folder) |
In the Applications/Utilities folder, there is a program called Grapher.app which you can use to correctly write equations for LaTeX.
Make a 2D or 3D window and write the equation into Grapher. You can also use Grapher's different symbols. When you are finished, highlight the equation and command-click (right-click) and simply select "Copy LaTeX Expression." Now paste it into LaTeX |
1.0 |
5/12/05 |
in OSX 10.4 |
| i-Installer |
Package management system with Cocoa GUI
interface. Pre-compiled. Easier to install and use for the novice than
Fink, but doesn't include everything else Fink does. Pretty complete
for TeX usage, though it lacks editors included with Fink. |
2.64 |
5/14/04 |
Free/Donation |
| iPapers |
iPapers is an application that manages many PDF files of articles, whose information can be obtained by PubMed. Can export to XML which can be converted to bibtex. |
1.9.4 |
7/17/07 |
Free |
| Ipe |
Ipe is a drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or (encapsulated) Postscript format. It supports making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX-documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations that can be shown on-line with Acrobat Reader. |
6.0 preview 28 |
7/16/07 |
Free/Donation |
| iStorm |
Editor/Collaboration Tool with TeX
support. |
3.4 |
5/14/04 |
Pay-ware |
| iTeXMac |
Sophisticated Editor/Viewer/Front end for
TeX. Highly customizable and flexible, which can be
overwhelming to the novice (if so, stop customizing!). Similar to
TeXShop, but with more features. Synchronization with its own editor or
an external editor. Requires Engine. Also see TeXShop Macros. |
1.3.15 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| JabRef |
GUI for managing BibTeX databases. |
1.3.1 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| JasTeX |
JasTeX is a Graphical User Interface written in Java for GasTeX. GasTeX is a set of LaTeX macros which allow to easily draw graphs, automata, nets, diagrams, etc... under the picture environment of LaTeX. |
1.0 |
4/16/06 |
Free |
| jEdit |
Java-based Editor, supports multiple
programming languages. (platform independent) |
4.3prerelease 10 |
7/16/07 |
Free/Donation |
| jfig |
2D graphics editor written in
Java and based upon xfig. Output to LaTeX, PicTeX, Epic, Eepic, PDF... (platform independent) |
3.08 |
7/16/07 |
|
| jPicEdt |
LaTeX Graphics Editor. Output to
PsTricks, Epic, Eepic, LaTeX pic. |
1.4pre-3 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| jsMath |
The jsMath package provides a method of including mathematics in HTML pages that works across multiple browsers under Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux and other flavors of unix. |
- |
1/8/08 |
Free |
| LaTeX
Equation Editor |
Equation editor. |
1.3 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| latex2applehelp |
latex2applehelp is a set of tools that converts a LaTeX source file to Apple Help files, with Apple-specific HTML tags and stylesheets. |
10/4/05 | Freeware (GNU) |
|
| LaTeXColorSelector |
This tool allows you to select a color on screen, using the standard Mac OS X color-selection tools and create LaTeX color definitions from them. |
9/29/04 | Freeware |
|
| LaTeXiT |
LaTeXiT is a small utility that allows you to quickly typeset LateX equation, without bothering with file creation, preambles etc. The PDF image obtained can then be exported by drag'n drop to any application supporting it. |
1.15 |
7/31/08 | Freeware |
| Local Switcher |
Local Switcher allows the user to switch between several tex sources by setting a symlink texprograms in your home directory to the new tex source. The tex sources that are in prinicple available for the switches are "texlive/year", "texlive2005", and "tetex", i.e., they are offered as possible options to switch to. See also Switcher |
1.5 |
12/31/06 | Free |
| LyX on Aqua |
WYSIWYG editor based on LaTeX. LyX produces high quality, professional output -- using LaTeX, an industrial strength typesetting engine, in the background; LyX is far more than a front-end to LaTeX, however. No knowledge of LaTeX is necessary to use LyX, although it will give a user more power. Requires LaTeX engine. |
1.5.3 |
1/20/08 | Free |
| MacDVIX |
DVI file viewer with
synchronization-with-editor support. |
2.4 |
5/14/04 | Shareware, $20 |
| MacGhostView |
Carbon Ghostscript/Viewer. |
3.0 |
5/14/04 |
Shareware, $20 |
| MacPorts |
Package manager system, includes everything you need to use TeX+, including editors, engines, etc. For the Unix savvy/inclined/interested. Can be challenging to a novice. | 1.5 |
7/17/07 |
Free |
| MacTeX TUG distribution |
All-in-one distribution of select tools by the TeX Users Group Mac Users Group. Contains everything you need to get started with a few extras (not necessarily everything you may want to try, but certainly a good all-in-one starting point. |
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9/18/07 |
- |
| MacQTeX |
Randomized Test/Quiz System |
1.0 |
12/27/05 |
GPL (free) |
| Make X11 Ready |
Utility to enable x11 tools to work with TeX/LaTeX |
1.0 |
6/17/06 |
GPL (free) |
| MathTran |
MathTran provides translation of TeX encoded mathematics to bitmap images as a web service. This makes it easy to put mathematics on your web pages. |
- |
1/8/08 | free |
| MathType |
Equation Editor. Upgrade of standard MS
Word equation editor. (Exports to LaTeX) |
5 |
5/11/04 | $129 ($99 academic) - 30 day free trial |
| Matlab/Octave tools |
matrix2tex.m converts matlab/octave matrices to latex table/matrix format (you set the environment in your doc). poly2tex.m converts matlab/octave polynomials to latex equations. latexcmd.m Creates a LaTeX file with commands named as the corresponding Matlab variables. |
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8/25/06 | Free |
| OcTeX
|
TeX Editor |
1.2 |
8/29/07 |
Freeware (for non-commercial use) |
| OmniOutliner
LaTeX Export |
Translator from OmniOutlines format. |
- |
Freeware |
|
| OzTeX |
Front End, Engine, and DVI viewer.
Relatively complete and simple. Requires external editor. |
5.2 |
7/16/07 | Share: $30 |
| Papers |
PDF file manager, uses BibDesk code to export to bibtex format. Very cool connection to PubMed. Doesn't currently support all bibtex fields, though, so not 100% compatible with BibDesk. |
1.1 |
7/17/07 | 29 Euros |
| PDF Nup Maker |
Tool, Merge PDFs for printing. |
1.0 |
5/13/03 | Free |
| PDFJam |
Droplets for OS X that use pdfTeX to manipulate PDF files. |
1.10 |
9/28/04 | Free |
| PDFLAB |
PDFLab lets you split and join PDF documents as well as insert images and blank pages. You will also be able to easily create PDF documents out of several images. |
1.1 |
2/2/05 | Free |
| pdftk |
If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Command line only. |
1.12 |
2/2/05 | Free |
| PDFView |
Discontinued. Please see Skim. |
0.14.3 |
5/16/07 | Free |
| Presenter2 |
A full-screen pdf displayer. It uses Quartz and produces better results when displaying line art than Acrobat. Complex images are rendered off-screen and then displayed, resulting in smoother and faster page-flips. An alternate to Preview in Tiger, which no longer is appropriate for presentations. See also hints |
5/8/05 | Freeware |
|
| RPN2TeX |
Equation editor using RPN input format (like HP calculator). Website is in Japanese, but Babel Fish can translate it. |
0.6.1 |
5/14/04 | ? |
| Scientific Assistant |
Front end, engine, viewer, editor. |
0.9.9a |
5/14/04 | Pay: $129 |
| SciTE |
SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. |
1.60 |
6/14/05 | free |
| SimpleTeX4ht |
TeX to html GUI interface. No GUI for
advanced options (you need to look at the man pages). |
0.8 |
5/7/04 | free |
| Skim |
PDFkit-based PDF reader and note-taker for OS X with support for PS/DVI. Supports pdfsync, automatic updates from disk, and previews of internal links. From the makers of BiBdesk. |
0.51 |
7/17/07 | Free |
| Smultron |
Open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X Panther with many of the features that you might need. (vague, but terse) |
2.2.7 |
3/24/07 | free |
| Spotlight Importers |
These tools allow Spotlight (10.4+) to include TeX files (s described) into the spotlight database. To add .bib files: BibImporter To add .dvi files: DVIImporter To index all the .tex, .latex, and .texi files that Carbon Emacsen write: LaTeXMDImporter |
5/3/05 | free |
|
| SubEthaEdit |
Collaborative Text Editor (CVS like capabilities- but simpler) with LaTeX support. |
2.0.1 |
9/28/04 | free |
| Switcher |
Switcher allows the user to setting a global symlink to texprograms. The tex sources that are in prinicple available for the switches are "texlive/year", "texlive2005", and "tetex", i.e., they are offered as possible options to switch to. |
1.1 |
12/31/06 | Free |
| Symbols |
A reference of special characters for LaTeX, HTML, and the Mac OS X keyboard. In LaTeX and HTML modes, clicking on a symbol will place the code for that symbol on the clipboard. |
1.0 |
9/1/05 | free |
| TCOBrowser |
TCOBrowser provides an easy way for Mac OS X users to access documentation and information about TeX and TeX-related packages available through CTAN, as well as some of the documentation on their local system.
|
0.6 beta |
6/16/04 |
Free |
| TeX FoG |
TeX FoG (TeX (Fo)rmula (G)raphic user
interface) is an equation editor to be used for typing TeX and LaTeX
equations without the need to remember all the commands. |
1.2.1 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| TeXmaker |
Sophisticated Editor (platform
independent) |
1.2 |
7/11/05 | Free |
| TeXniscope |
TeXniscope is a DVI/PDF previewer for MacOSX. It has been supplanted by Skim. |
0.3.2 |
7/17/07 | Free |
| TexPoint |
TexPoint is a Microsoft Powerpoint add-in that enables the easy use of LaTeX symbols and formulas in Powerpoint presentations. |
2.8.1 |
3/3/06 | $25 (shareware) |
| TeX Scripts BBEdit |
Utils for BBEdit. See BBEdit above and TeX Scripts (below). |
1.08 |
12/16/03 | Free |
| TeX Scripts |
A collection of shell and applescripts that facilitate typesetting and the use of various TeX tools like makeindex, metapost, bibtex, and tex4ht, e.g., it is possible to produce a html output from a source file by a simple click. Five small applications, droplets, are also included, named pdfselect, flip folder (end of line converter), dvipdf, ps2pdf, and dvipdfh. |
1.08 |
12/16/03 | Free |
| TeXShell |
GUI interface to command line TeX tools. |
1.5.1 |
10/18/03 | Free |
| TeXShop |
Front end, editor, viewer. First Cocoa application. Similar to iTeXMac, but more streamlined. Synchronization with its own editor. Requires Engine. Also see TeXShop Macros. | 10.3.9 or less: 1.37 10.4 or higher: 2.07 |
1/16/06 | Free |
| TeXShop Macros |
Macros for creating and manipulating tables/arrays in TeXShop & iTeXMac. | ? |
3/23/05 | Free |
| TeXTable |
TeXTable is a simple-to-use editor for LaTeX tables. The table may be edited cell-by-cell, or in text format, allowing fast changes with both approaches. Additionally, transformations may be applied to groups of cells, such as transposition or surrounding their text with $$. | 0.2 | 12/1/07 | Free |
| TextMate |
TextMate attempts to bring Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike. With a wealth of exclusive features like tabs, foldings, and macros... |
1.5.5 |
3/21/07 | €39 |
| TeXType |
It is yet another equation creator using TeX. It supports standard Cmd-Copy/Cmd-Paste, allows drag&drop, and has LinkBack support. It even auto-compiles. | 0.2 |
4/21/05 | Free |
| TextWrangler |
Feature-reduced editor like BBEdit. Successor to BBEdit Lite. Also see BBEdit plug-ins. | 2.1.1 |
11/28/05 | Free |
| TeXwiz |
TeXwiz is a document creation wizard for LaTeX documents that supports many of the extremely useful features provided by KOMA script. | 1.0.1 |
7/11/05 | Free (GPL) |
| TUG MacTeX distributions |
Almost (to be politically correct) verything you need all in one simple installation process. Not necessarily everything you WANT, but probably the best starting point. |
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1/1/06 |
GPL (free) |
| VI Input Manager |
This bundle patches the Cocoa Text System to add a Vi-like command mode. After entering command-mode (typically, by hitting escape in Vi), ordinary Vi commands can be typed and the text field will be updated accordingly. Essentially, this add Vi command functionality (albeit a small subset) to any (and all) text editors that use the Cocoa text system; e.g., Safari, TeXShop, XCode, etc. |
0.2 |
10/14/06 | Free |
| Vim |
Powerful Unix editor (Carbon app) that
supports multiple programming engines. The other side of the Unix
editor battle with Emacs. |
6.2.472 |
5/14/04 | Free |
| WARMFigToPDF |
A system for labeling figures generated with Adobe Illustrator. |
4.0.3 |
9/28/04 | Free |
| WizzyTeX |
WhizzyTeX is an Emacs minor mode for incrementally viewing LATEX documents that you are editing. It works under Unix with gv and xdvi viewers, but the ActiveDVI viewer will provide much better visual effects and offer more functionalities.
|
1.2.2 |
4/7/05 | Free |
| WARMFigToPDF |
A system for labeling figures generated with Adobe Illustrator. |
4.0.3 |
9/28/04 | Free |
| WordService |
This service provides 34 functions to convert, format or speak the currently selected text, to insert data or to show statistics of the selection within all Cocoa applications (for example TextEdit, Mail, or TeXShop) and Carbon applications supporting services.
Features: Reformat, Remove line attachments/endings/links/multiple spaces/multiple feeds/quotes, Trim line beginnings/line endings/lines, Sort lines ascending/descending, Shift left/light, Initial caps of words/sentences, All caps & lowercase, Mac/Windows/Unix line endings, Rotate 13, Straight/Smart Quotes, Encode/Decode tabs, Insert date/date & time/time/contents of path, Speak native/german text, Statistics. |
5/5/05 | Shareware |
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| XcodeLaTeX |
XcodeLaTeX is a set of Xcode
specification files that setup limited LaTeX functionality within
Apple's Xcode IDE |
0.3 |
11/7/03 | Free |
| XEmacs |
See Emacs above. This is an off-shoot of
emacs that is free, include a lof of extras, but... well, it's along
story. Go to the XEmacs
web site and the Emacs web site if you
care about the dispute, but the site for Mac info is to the left.
Unfortunately, the Carbon version doesn't work as well as the Carbon
version of emacs. I recommend using the X-windows version in Fink or
DarwinPorts if you want to use it. |
21.5.9 |
5/14/04 |
Free |
| XeTeX |
A typesetting system based on a merger of
the venerable TeX system with Unicode and Mac OS X font technologies. Available as an i-Package. |
0.7 |
5/20/04 | Free |