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== LaTeX == | == LaTeX == | ||
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* [http://www.tug.org/mactex MacTeX] (Rodrigo) | |||
* [http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ TeXShop] (Giovanni) | |||
Related software: | Related software: | ||
Revision as of 14:11, 4 May 2009
This page contains useful information for Macintosh users. Please do feel free to add content!
X Windows
Make sure you install the latest version of http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki because the X11 shipped with OS X Leopard is not as updated as this one.
LaTeX
Suggested packages:
Related software:
- For creating LaTeX equations on-the-fly (e.g., drag-and-drop to a presentation): http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/latexit_en.php
Python
Suggested package: http://www.python.org/download (the standard one)
To install python modules in the user account follow these steps: (this is an example where modules are installed in ~/Library/python, adapt accordingly)
- create a file named ~/.pydistutils.cfg containing
[install] home=~/Library/python
- add the following line to ~/.profile
export PYTHONPATH=~/Library/python/lib/python
Make sure you check the Python resources page in this mediawiki.
Linux software
Suggested package: http://www.macports.org
Emacs
Suggested package: http://aquamacs.org
GIMP
Suggested package: http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html