2. Overview Installing the engine Choosing a GUI Editor Customizing LaTex Bibliography Manager Equation Editor LaTex Help Files (*click on icons to go to website)

3. Installing the Engine Engine compiles the LaTex source into the final document (pdf, dvi…) Gerben Wierda’s Tex i-package –Essentially Unix tetex ported to OsX –http://www.rna.nl/tex.html

4. GUI Editor - TexShop TexShop provides way to edit document in GUI –Instead of using the terminal and command line programs TexShop produces PDF as default output! Built in viewer, highlights formatting tags Palette for symbols, environments… Command completion (\beg `esc` - \begin) http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texs hop.html

5. GUI Editor - TexShop

6. GUI Editor - TexShop Palette

7. GUI Editor - TexShop Also a lot of drag and drop functionality –Citations –Pdf (tiff, jpg…also) to Office programs Set up project root (ideal for thesis)

8. Customizing LaTex Installs standard teTex engine (/usr/local/tetex/bin…), but customized files go in local directory: ~Library/texmf/tex - preamble, definitions, style files ~Library/texmf/bibtex - bibliography style files (*.bst’s)

9. Customizing TexShop Custom files go in local directory as well: ~Library/TexShop/__________ –Templates –Menus –Command Completion –Macros –…

10. BibDesk Manages a bibliography database (*.bib) http://bibdesk.so urceforge.net/

11. Equations - TexFoG Alternative to using the palette in TexShop to format equations Save frequently used equations as well

12. Equations - LaTeX Equation Editor Uses iTeX engine described above to set equations Drag equation image to Word or PowerPoint - Alternative to Equation Editor for LaTex users

13. LaTex Help Hypertext LaTex help files ported to X help viewer http://itexmac.so urceforge.net/Do wnload.html

14. LaTeX on X - Links http://latex.yauh.de/links_en.html