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GNU Emacs vs MacTeX

A side-by-side look at GNU Emacs and MacTeX. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GNU Emacs

GNU Emacs

Development

GNU Emacs is a popular, open source text editor and computing environment. It runs on most operating systems and provides extensibility through an Emacs Lisp interpreter.

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MacTeX

MacTeX

Office & Productivity

MacTeX is a free, open source TeX/LaTeX distribution for macOS based on TeX Live. It includes TeX engines, macro packages, fonts, documentation, and GUI applications like TeXShop.

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