Well, on linux it was easy, at least for most distributions it already seemed to be there.
Right now, I’m running Mac OS X (Panther!) and the best thing I heard was i-installer which sounded like a good idea but it took waaaay too long to download and…(I may or may not have been on dial-up then, but my faster internet connection is not much better so…). Thus I resorted to downloading and installingFink and then at Terminal.app:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tetex
and ta! da! i had TeX.
As time went by, I installed other packages I found out about…
Well, then I needed an editor and I guess one could use TextEdit…or the command line emacs but…why when there’s AquaEmacs or EnhancedCarbonEmacs (which I prefer of the two actually)
But better than even emacs (!!!), there’s TeXShop which is a nice little editor that’ll produce the PDF files for you right away (after all, what am I going to do with postscript?)
