Download for Mac OS X
AUCTeX distribution files
You can get the distribution files of the latest AUCTeX release including preview-latex in the following formats along with signature files for validation:
- Gzipped tarball
- auctex-11.85.tar.gz (signature)
- Zip archive
- auctex-11.85.zip (signature)
If you are into XEmacs and want to spare yourself the hassle of building AUCTeX you can use the following ready-made XEmacs package.
- XEmacs package
- auctex-11.85-pkg.tar.gz (signature)
AUCTeX's manual and reference card for key bindings can be found in the 11.85-extra directory as PostScript and PDF files.
Software requirements
In order to use AUCTeX the following software is required in addition:
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A recent version of Emacs or XEmacs:
Using preview-latex requires a version of Emacs compiled with image support. This means that Emacs 21 will work only in the version for X11. In general Emacs 22 is the better choice. A precompiled Emacs 22 including a preinstalled version of AUCTeX with preview-latex is provided by the Carbon Emacs Package.
For XEmacs, you need at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball from or newer than 02/02/2004.
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A TeX system:
Popular TeX system distributions for Mac OS X are gwTeX and TeX Live.
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Ghostscript for generating PostScript and other output. Required by preview-latex.
Past releases
Older releases and accompanying files can be found in the download directories http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/ or ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/.