In order to run iTeXMac2 properly, you must have a working TeX installation and GhostScript tools available:

• Download Gerben Wierda's ii-installer II2.dmg
• Open the downloaded disk image
• In the Finder, select the volume named ii2Volume
• Copy i-Installer to your application folder, preferrably inside the installers folder
• Open i-Installer
• Select the menu item i-Package->Known package i-Directory
• In the list, select both GhostScript 8 and Gerben Wierda's TeX i-package
• Open them
• For each, Press the "Install and Configure" button

People who tried an older preview and face problems should trash the preference file in

~/Library/Preferences/comp.text.tex.iTeXMac2

Please notice that in iTeXMac2 preview are available new technologies. Major changes were made. But unfortunately some interesting features previously available in iTeXMac are not yet available in this new version. The reason is simply that the old design was not strong enough. As a preview, this is dangerous software! So use it with care, preferrably making backups frequently.

Please notice also that iTeXMac2 is getting bigger which could cause problems in downloading.

Download iTeXMac2 preview 439(22MB)

Preview history

- From now on, news will be available on the RSS feed.

- preview build 404: Most important bug fixed: PDF viewer caused a crash.

- preview build 384: BUG fix in Text editor, when LaTeX style is used. New auto updater added, embedded Sparkle framework. The Check For Update menu item is now working, there is a companion preferences pane. Some management improvement invisible to the end user.

- preview build 367: BUG fix in PDF viewer. BUG fix in the syntax coloring, it was not possible to edit a new void document in TeX Default mode. The LaTeX symbol panel now supports the PiFont package (Zapf Dingbats) and the syntax coloring also when in extended latex mode. Some management improvement invisible to the end user.

- preview build 331: The project management is more discrete. The new TeXDist design for TeX distributions is supported.

- preview build 325: Bug fixes: The dvi+ps+pdf route now works completely. Indent, unindent, comment, uncomment now work: select some text (no need to be continuous) go to the Format/Formatter menu and select the action.

- preview build 318: Bug fixes: The dvi+ps+pdf route did not work for files with uppercase letters. Completion is available for more LaTeX commands: select the Edit/Complete/LaTeX and then insert for example \in +esp and enjoy. Use cmd tab to select the fields.

- preview build 312: Bug fixes: the pdf window is now working properly, the TeX distribution support too. Better link support in the PDF inspector.

- preview build 296: Bug fixes: there was a problem of encoding, TeX distribution management on PPC.

- preview build 279: Bug fixes. Completion starting point. Net release will contain LaTeX hypertext help.

- preview build 263: Bug fixes. Alpha X support added, write 18 support. If you plan to use iTeXMac2 with Alpha X, you will have to replace the original latexComm.tcl by the one shipped with iTeXMac2. Open a TeX document with iTeXMac2, then switch to the Alpha X inspector from the inspectors window submenu. Cmd+double click in the pdf window should bring you to the very character in the source. I am a bit late in my planning. Next version will be available in a pair of weeks. It will include a real text completion.

- preview build 232: Many bug fixes. However, some annoying bugs are still lying around and crash reports are welcome.

- preview build 191: Many bug fixes. The PDF viewer has been improved. There is a new crash reporter. There is now support for Tiger Autosave feature. Sources are available on sourceforge via subversion (svn): see below. If you like a dangerous life, try and enjoy.

- preview build 145: Many bug fixes. Working on intel. Sources are available on sourceforge via subversion (svn): see below. If you like a dangerous life, try and enjoy.

- preview build 114: Many bug fixes. Working on intel. Sources are available on sourceforge via subversion (svn): see below

- preview build 36: Many bug fixes. Working on intel. Sources are available on sourceforge via subversion (svn): see the wiki for detailled explanations.

- preview15: Many bug fixes. Working on intel. Source will be available soon on sourceforge via subversion (svn).

- preview13: Now in french... Maintenant en français!

- preview11: Enhancements and bug fixes. Macros are back, the backbone is totally different...

- preview10: Enhancements and bug fixes. Universal binaries. XCode 2.2 project.

- preview8: Enhancements and bug fixes. Full context support is planned for next preview.

- preview7: Huge enhancements. Sources are available, for those who are interested. No CVS yet because source design might still change.

- preview6: Huge enhancements. I start to like it. Sources are available, for those who are interested. No CVS yet because source design might still change.

- preview5: Many enhancements. However there is a bug when opening big files with default syntax coloring, I did not have time to fix the bug before aI leave on hollidays. Sources are available, for those who are interested.

- preview3: The Tiger inspector is complete, the symbols drawer has turned into a panel, some internals have changed.

- preview2: The compile process should now work with everyone, as long as the TeX installation is correct. The not so short introduction to LaTeX is given as an example, open it and navigate from source to output (and conversely). The built in text editor is fairly limitated, the old one will come out very soon as a plug in

What are the major changes?

- iTeXMac2 is Tiger only. (Maybe Panther will be partly supported)

- iTeXMac2 is now project centric: each time you open a TeX document, iTeXMac2 will silently open or create an associate project. The project has extension texp. The TeX menu still gathers actions to be performed (typeset, make the index and the bibliography, clean, special...). You can customize these actions. The Window:project name submenu brings you to the various documents/files associated to the project.

- iTeXMac2 knows about TeX wrappers. Documents with a texd extension wrap TeX projects and the documents. You can double click on them in the finder and everything will be open for you. There is a contextual menu in the distribution to let you move a folder into a TeX wrapper and vice versa. It is not required to use wrappers.

- iTeXMac2 knows about inspectors. Now the window used to display the contents of a document can be different from file to file. For text documents, 2 inspectors are available: a very basic built in one named Default, and a switcher to TextEdit named TextEdit provided as an example for the use of an external text editor. For PDF documents, 3 inspectors are available: a very basic built in one named Default inherited from iTeXMac but yet incomplete, an advanced one using Tiger technology named Tiger and a switcher to Preview provided as an example to use an external PDF viewer. To use inspectors, click on a window, then choose in the Window:Inspectors menu the one you prefer. Of course, the choice is fairly limited now: Default for text and Tiger for PDF, but it will change rapidly (even HTML is planned)

- iTeXMac2 knows about plug ins.

- The synchronization between Tiger inspector and the built in text editor has been improved due to newly available Tiger technology. A huge step towards TeXTures famous synchronicity was made (pdfsync is still used however). Cmd+Double click on a letter in the source, it should bring you to the very letter in the PDF output. Cmd+Double click on a letter in the PDF output, it should bring you to the very letter in the input, in the correct file. Almost.

- The syntax coloring scheme is really improved. You can define styles. You can now choose to display some TeX control sequences as the symbol they are meant to code for. This features will let you see an α, β , ∑, ∀ when the source really contains \alpha, \beta, \sum, \forall and so on...

- Spell checking knows about projects, each file has its own language and list of known words

- The tiger PDF inspector knows about key bindings, this is some king of RPN implementation: 2+ will advance twice to the next page whereas 2* will zoom in twice and 2/ will zoom out twice. 100= will bring you to page 100, 100 enter will zoom to 100%

What is missing?

- AppleScript is not yet completely supported. It should be plug in compliant, but some possible limitation in Mac OS X has to be investigated first. Moreover, a real effort on the syntax will be made to really have a natural scripting language.

- Macros menus and text key bindings are not supported either (at least publicly). Their implementation was completely distinct. Now, the macro implementation will be separated and shared by the various macro menus and key bindings. It will be plug in compliant too.

- The help file.

- Localizations.

- Documentation and examples.

Comments, reports, remarks are really requested

I have no other Tiger machine than mine, some basic tests are missing.

Please install the contextual menu plug in your Library, with the same directory structure.

Notice that the arabic.texd example only works with XeTeX.