The Best 8 MacTeX Alternatives
MacTeX is a redistribution of TeX Live, including Mac-specific utilities and front-ends.
MacTeX is a redistribution of TeX Live, a typesetting environment. While TeX Live is designed to be crossplatform (running on Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows), MacTeX includes Macspecific utilities and frontends. It is also preconfigured to work outofthebox with Mac OS X as it provides sensible defaults for configuration options that, in TeX Live, are left up to the user to allow for its crossplatform compatibility.