Using LaTeX on a Mac

Prerequisites: Download MacTex.mpkg.zip and install.
write test.bib files and Test.tex files. first generate the. aux file with latex Test.texThen use BibTeX test to generate BBL file with two times latex Test.tex get DVI file dvipdfm test.dvi get PDF file
You can use the Texshop+excalibur check syntax to view the bib file with the Bibdesk pane.

using LaTeX on a Mac

February 25, 2010 | Tags: latex, tex | Author: vpsee

Professor Donald E. Knuth, a tenured professor at Stanford University and a computer science giant, found that the typesetting technique was so coarse that it seriously affected the computer algorithmic book "The Art of Computer programming" that he was writing. So his old man spent 10 years writing a powerful typesetting software called Tex, and so far Tex/latex remains the oldest in academic typesetting, very popular in academia, especially in the fields of mathematics, physics and computer science. Since Tex is too difficult to use, another computer scientist, Leslie Lamport, developed LaTeX on the basis of Tex, which greatly simplifies the difficulty of using Tex, making it possible for many people without professional typography and programming to give full play to the powerful features that Tex offers, easy typesetting Out of exquisite text, so LaTeX gradually became popular.

Why not use Microsoft Word. Vpsee has a natural fear of the large software in Word, which has a lot of bugs. A friend wrote a 300-page ph. D. thesis, and then one months before handing in the paper, found a word plugin used to manage reference bad, and lost all the reference, spent a few nights to tidy up, the people who wrote the paper know how to manage and maintain all Reference consistency is a very troublesome thing, especially when the paper is written to the end, change a place will affect all the relevant places. Doctor friend also encountered a problem is that Word opened more than 300 pages of the article found that the printed format and see the format is inconsistent, the table is wrong to the next page, there is no alignment. In the past, some friends complained about the Word macro virus, and I don't know if there are any. And Windows itself is very easy to infect virus, after infection or after antivirus some Word documents can not open, LaTeX are pure text save, there will be no such problems. Another problem with Word is that some foreign tutors, the professor rejects word, if you want to send the article in the past to let them modify, see to give some suggestions, it is inconvenient, let them in busy schedule to take time out to find a Windows machine with Word, and then help you see Paper/thesis is a very excessive thing, so either you send the PDF format, or send LaTeX source files.

Q: "If you are were young again, would do you start writing TeX again or would your use Microsoft word, or another word processor?" ”
A: "I hope to die before I have to use Microsoft Word."
Harald König asking Donald Knuth, Tübingen, 2 Oct 2001.

Previously on the Mac upload Tex/latex is very troublesome, now much easier, only need to download a single package MacTeX.mpkg.zip can be installed in applications under the generation of an Tex directory, Tex/latex editor Texshop,refere nCE tool Bibdesk, spelling checker Excalibur, etc. are all in this directory. Open TeXShop and click typeset to automatically compile LaTeX source code and generate PDF file:

Add a reference with Bibdesk:

Original link: http://www.vpsee.com/2010/02/use-latex-on-ma/