TeXShop

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TeXShop
TeXShop 2.09b under Mac OS X v10.4.6
Developed by	Richard Koch, Max Horn, Dirk Olmes
Latest release	2.14 (Mac OS X v10.4) / 2007-08-16
OS	Mac OS X
Platform	Macintosh
Genre	TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX editor
License	GNU GPL
Website	http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/

TeXShop is a free TeX editor and previewer for Mac OS X. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.

It was developed by American mathematician, Professor Richard Koch. TeXShop was created especially for the Mac OS X user interface Aqua and capitalised on the native PDF support of the Macintosh operating system. Mitsuhiro Shishikura enhanced it by adding the ability to transfer mathematical expressions directly into Keynote presentations. TeXShop requires an existing TeX installation and is currently bundled with the MacTeX distribution.

The introduction of TeXShop caused a TeX-boom among Macintosh users. The program (then version 1.19) won the 2002 Apple Design Award of Best Mac Open Source Port for its capability to display scientific and technical documents created in TeX format. In fact, TeXShop makes it possible, thanks to "pdfsync.sty", to switch back and forth between code and preview, jumping at a rather satisfying corresponding spot, simply by a CMD-click. From TeXShop 1.35 onward this also works with multipart documents, which are joined by "\include". Also, with version 1.35 TeXShop was extended with XeTeX support.

The Tiger version of TeXShop is capable of jumping from preview to code and vice versa without pdfsync.sty, using the PDF search technology built in Tiger (NB: No Spotlight here). See iTeXMac for a stronger implementation of such a technology also known as pdf synchronization.

On June 5th 2006, version 2.10 (beta) was made available, which is a universal binary.

For TeXShop there is a support forum, which is administered by the German project ApfelWiki.de. [1]