Among others, it'll provide all command-line tools such as "pdflatex" that you will need. In order to be able to write TeX documents on your Mac, you'll first need to download and install a distribution, which renders your documents.There are quite a few TeX distributions out there that work with OS X, but my personal recommendation would be MacTeX, which is specifically written for the Mac and supports pretty much all OS X versions (including Mountain Lion). In any case, download and install MacTex first to get started, as suggested in other answers. It will notice that the file has changed and it'll reload the document automatically, without losing the current location. Leave both windows open.Įdit the document in your text editor and hit the keyboard shortcut that compiles the document.
My typical workflow:įirst, open the source code in your text editor and open the PDF file in Preview (you can make this a bit more automatic by using some scripts).
Preview (part of Mac OS X) is a good tool for previewing PDF files that you produce with pdflatex. It has a decent support for Latex, and it's easy to customise (e.g., you can define a keyboard shortcut that invokes a shell script that compiles your Latex document). Texpad is a commercial software which costs 24.99. TextMate is fairly popular text editor for Mac OS X. One nice thing is that I don't need to learn that many different tools I can use the same text editor for Latex files, programming, etc. There are more integrated environments for editing Latex documents, but I'm happy with a good general-purpose text editor + a good PDF viewer + some scripts.
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