It's approximately 2.3 GB in size and takes up around 4.5 GB on your hard disk drive. MacTeX is a custom-built TeX distribution for OS X.įor most users, the package I would recommend installing is the full MacTeX package.
#Install lyx for mac
There are plenty to choose from (as TeX is open-source) however for Mac users, the one that I would recommend is MacTeX, which is specifically designed for OS X and supports all official releases (including Mountain Lion - as of July 2013 there is no word on support for Mavericks). LyX requires a TeX distribution to be installed on your Mac before you can start. In this tutorial, I'm going to cover LyX in some detail and show you how you can use it to easily create simple yet professional-looking documents. It's a document processor that uses TeX to render your documents, meaning you get pretty much the same results as if you'd written the document in pure TeX code, but it comes with a more user-friendly interface and apart from some advanced formatting (which is beyond the scope of this tutorial), you don't have to learn a single line of TeX code.
The problem with TeX, though, is that it comes with a fairly steep learning curve - you can't just start writing a document straight away in it and you need to learn the basics before you can start. As a former student, I was (and to some extent, am still) a big fan of TeX - a wonderful and versatile typesetting system first developed by Donald Knuth in the 1970s and still in widespread use today across the academic and scientific fields.
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