Mac OS X is the flagship operating system from Apple Inc. It was the successor to Mac OS 9 and here the 'X' means 10.
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How do I add a .sty file to my MacTeX/TeXShop installation?
I've searched online, but I have not found any clear instructions how to permanently add .sty files to my TeXShop installation. I'm using a Mac with OSX (TeXShop is a mac only program).
What is the ...
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TeX to image over command line
I'd like to generate an image with math formulas with TeX from command line. Something like:
$ tex-executable "E=\frac{m_1v^2}{2}" e2.png
I have MacTex 2009 installed and I'm pretty sure that ...
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How to speed up pdflatex for a very large document on MacOS X?
I wonder how I can speed up the pdflatex compilation of a large document (thesis) with >200 pages and many images (however all imported PDFs or imported pixel graphics, no TikZor similar things yet!).
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‘Bundle’ TeX output in a directory
(My personal interest in this question is mainly for OS X but solutions/approaches for other operating systems are also appreciated.)
What I see as a main distraction with using TeX/LateX is that it ...
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How to typeset special Apple Mac keyboard symbols?
Is there a standard way to typeset the special symbols of the Apple Mac keyboard? That is, the curly rectangle ⌘ and the others?
If there is none, what would you suggest as workarounds?
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How to make LaTeX see local texmf tree
I recently installed TeXLive 2011 on my Mac running Snow Leopard. I did not download MacTeX (for reasons we won't go into here). I'm running into a problem where pdflatex can't see my local texmf ...
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Entering unicode math symbols into LaTeX, direct from keyboard, on a Mac
I would like my LaTeX files to contain Unicode characters. For instance, I want to see
∃x．x ⟶ β
in my text editor, rather than
\exists x\ldotp x\longrightarrow\beta
Also, I would like to ...
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Which LaTeX distribution should I use on OSX?
Which LaTeX installation would you recommend using on OSX? Ideally I'd want the installation to contain as many packages as possible as I'll be using my Macbook offline mostly.
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Launching an external PDF viewer from Emacs/AUCTeX on a Mac OSX fails.
I am trying to set Emacs/AUCTeX to invoke an external PDF viewer so I can view the document output, preferably with source correlation via SyncTeX. AUCTeX, by default, suggested evince file.pdf; ...
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pdflatex fails within Emacs.app, but works in terminal
LaTeX rookie here.
I'm running OS X 10.7 with Emacs 24, Auctex 11.86 and TexLive 2011 via MacTex.
When i run LaTeX through Emacs in the terminal it outputs my test.tex as test.pdf just fine.
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TeX Live OS X users: testing needed for “download on the fly” script?
Not sure if this is a strictly appropriate question (I hope so, because it has to do with TeX-related tools) but I need to know whether or not my texliveonfly.py script runs successfully on OS X. ...
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Embedding a WMV file in a beamer presentation under Mac OS X
In brief, I have created a beamer presentation that contains an embedded WMV file. Acrobat Reader, however, does not recognise the format of the file under Mac OS, and refuses to play it under ...
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LaTeX in Word/Office 2011?
I remember I read somewhere out there that Office 2011 Word will support TeX (LaTeX).
Is this true? I have Office 2011 on my Mac but I cannot find anything related to TeX.
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I want to start using LaTeX on Mac OS X. Where do I start?
I want to write my final thesis using LaTeX, what should I do in order to be able to do that through Eclipse on a Mac OS X? If any another good editor exists, feel free to write your opinion on why ...
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Where is PATH modified to include /usr/texbin?
I've noticed that my PATH variable includes /usr/texbin, as it should, but I can't find any bash files that modified my PATH variable to include it. How did the TeXLive installation modify my PATH ...
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MinionPro on Mac OS X
Has anyone been able to install the MinionPro package on OS X? I usually install (and update) TeX Live through MacPorts and the first package I have ever found that wasn't already included is ...
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Automatically start the necessary pdflatex runs if .tex has changed (MacOS X)?
I read about Latex Daemon, which seems to automatically start a new latex run, when the source document (.tex) has changed.
Can somebody recommend me a similar solution for MacOS X (as Latex daemon ...
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Ligatures in Hoefler with XeTeX?
Using XeLaTeX on OS X 10.6 (texlive installed with MacPorts) I'm not getting any ligatures with Hoefler.
Example code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,xltxtra}
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Dropbox & LaTeX compiling automation
I'm in the middle of a "drop a file here and compile it using LaTeX" project. I have a Dropbox and I would like to drop a .tex file in a specific folder and have a script that compiles it for me. I'm ...
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macports tex install does not have nag.sty
How do I install missing style files with macports' tex install?
File `nag.sty' not found.
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Font installation in TeXShop on a Mac
I apologize for this being an extremely naive question, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around what the sources I've consulted so far are saying.
I'm writing a Beamer presentation in TeXShop, ...
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TikZ + gnuplot on a Mac
I'm using LaTeX a lot in my work and I switched to Mac recently. I installed TeX Live and everything works fine, except for plotting a figure with gnuplot.
I installed gnuplot 4.4.3 first simply in ...
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Tool to handle “precompiling the preamble” automatically
On Windows there is a nice little tool called latexdaemon that can handle "precompiling the preamble" (and thus speeding up compilation) automatically. It doesn't require any additional setup: one ...
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Where does BasicTeX put the texmf directory on OSX?
I have just installed BasicTeX on OSX 10.5 and I'm trying to locate the texmf directory to copy the llncs (LaTeX .cls and .sty files) folder into.
According to the install log the location should be ...
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Is there a TeX for OS X that I can compile from sources myself without major troubles?
I ask because I have traditionally used TeTeX, which is perpetually included with Slackware Linux. However, I downloaded the source code for TeTeX, and it appears to be a bit tricky to build on Mac OS ...
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Is there a lightweight implementation/distribution of TeX for Mac OSX?
I'm on an SSD and space is an issue. The MacTeX distribution is over 2GB. BasicTeX seems to be too limiting to be useful to me, unfortunately.
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latex-suite on OSX - citation completion not working [closed]
So I have just installed latex-suite using the default version of vim that ships with OSX 10.6. The problem I'm having is that \cite completion is not working properly. This is what happens:
Begin ...
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Getting pdfLaTeX ro run on new install (Mac OS X Lion) [closed]
New laptop, and attempting to set up TeXShop . I downloaded MacTeX, and attempted to install (using install-tl), but Terminal said I did not have permission. Found instructions to enable root user, ...
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Installation on OSX 10.7.4 [closed]
I used the mpkg. Installation went fine, but nothing works. I cannot typeset (the usual "/usr/texbin/pdflatex does not exist"). TeXLive cannot find a server to connect to. I tried reinstalling from ...
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Frutiger font in TexLive 2011 and Lion OS
I tried to install the Frutiger font on TexLive 2011 using Lion OS. I followed this guide:
Copy the file frutiger.tar.gz to the folder /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local.
Unzip the file.
Open a shell ...
