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About Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a powerfuloperating system that combines Unix underpinnings familar to particlephysicists and easy-to-use interface of Macintosh. This home pagedescribes how to set up Mac OS X for the use by particle theorists orother physicists.
Install OS
Of course, you must install the operating system first. From theinstaller, don't choose 'Easy Install' but 'Customize' it so that X11(see below) will be installed.Once you have installed the system from CD-ROM, go to the Apple Menu(the Apple logo at the top left corner of the screen) and choose'Software Update', and keep updating the system until you don't seeany more updates. You can skip some updates, if you are dead surethat you will never use Arabic on your machine, or you won't use fancyMP3 player from Apple iPod. But install all of those that are notobviously useless for you.
Xcode
Apple renamed Developer Tools to Xcode. It is a collection ofcompilers, header files, libraries, and software development tools.You definitely want C compiler so that you can install standard Unixsoftware. The CDs to install Xcode must have come with your system.Xcode is also freely available here if you sign up. Itscompiler is a hacked version of gcc to support Objective C. The Xcodeis big, though, weighing more than 800MB. Don't attempt a downloadwithout a broadband.TeX
We can't live without TeX. MacTeX TeXnical working group of the TeXUsers Group (TUG) created an easy-to-install TeX distribution for forMacOSX. Go to The MacTeXDistribution page to download it.If you in addition would like to have a Mac-like application thatcombines the editor and previewer, TeXShop is the way togo. From this web site, you will find other available TeXinstallations as well.
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X Windows
Many Unix applications run in X Windows environment. Apple'simplementation of X Windows X11for Mac OS X uses native graphics engine and is fast. It uses itsown window manager that looks just like the rest of Mac Aquainterface. It can be installed from the Snow Leopard system DVD. You alsoneed 'X11 for Mac OS X SDK' from the system DVD.Unix applications
A variant of Unix which Mac OS X is based on is called Darwin. Many Unixapplications had been ported to Mac OS X already. I like using Fink package manager. Itautomates the process of downloading the binary package, ordownloading source package, applying a patch, compling, and installingit. There is an impressive number of applications you can install viafink. Fink was designed carefully as to not disturb or modify thesystem. It can be uninstalled with a single command 'sudo rm -r /sw'You definitely want f77, imagemagick, ghostscript for X, ispell, xdvi,and gimp if you want to edit graphics or xv to preview them.Another source of ported Unix applications is Gnu-Darwin Distribution.It is not as automatic as fink, but it provides a wide collection ofported Unix applications. It does require some tinkering with thesystem area. Proceed cautiously.
To run commands on a shell, you launch Terminal application from/Applications/Utilities folder.
Emacs
You can emacs on Terminal already out of the box, or xemacs in XWindows available via fink. I'd recommend using Emacs (GNU Emacs, not xemacs) as a separateapplication together with auctex. It can be installed via fink as% fink install emacs23-app% fink install auctex
To make sure that Emacs.app has the same environmental variables as your shell, install also exec-path-from-shell.el. Then Emacs.app has built-in support for SOURCE SPECIALS which you enable fromthe menu Command → TeXing Options → Source Specials. Thenby doing control-click on the xdvi window, the cursor in Emacs movesautomatically to the corresponding paragraph. Make sure emacsclient from the command line calls /sw/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient. It also has a built-in support for LaTeX-aware formatting, that makes editing LaTeX easier. I'd also recommend 'M-x flyspell-mode' for on-the-fly spell checking. Itrequires ispell available through fink.
You can do the same also with xemacs. You set anenvironmental variable XEDITOR='gnuclient -q +%l %f'
in .xinitrc, and run 'M-x gnuserv-start' in xemacs. You should set (progn (setq LaTeX-command-style '(('.' 'latex --src-specials'))));
in ~/.xemacs/init.el to use SOURCE SPECIALS. One annoyance is thatxemacs keeps opening a new window each time you control-click on xdvi.
Web Browsers
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Mac OS X comes both with Apple's Safari, a Mac-only fastbrowser based on KDE's Konqueror, and with Internet Explorerpreinstalled.Probably more popular these days is Firefox fromMozilla. It is highly customizable, but doesn't quite look like a Macapp.
Another Mac-only browser OmniWeb isalso an excellent alternative that looks just right. It feelssnappier and even better than Safari.
The recent versions of Safari can uncompress gzipped Postscript files,convert them to PDF, and display them with Preview applicationautomatically.
High Energy Physics specific tools
Keisuke Fujii, my former collaborator on JLC studies, has ported manyuseful HEP-specific tools to Mac OS X, including topdrawer,cernlib, available here.Thank you, Fujii-san! Many of them can be installed via fink.For gfortran for Intel Macs, try this link.
For parton-distribution functions, use this link.
Unix servers
Because Mac OS X is Unix, it can run all kinds of servers. To servemail, MailServeSnowcan turn on SMTP, POP3, and IMAP servers with SSL. To setup mailing lists, GNUMailman is easy and secure. Remote administration is supportedout of the box via VNC. Just go to 'Sharing' control panel, and turnon 'Apple Remote Desktop.' All you need then is a client, such as Chicken of theVNC.Miscellaneous Applications
Fugu is agraphical sftp client. And the good-'old Fetch now supports sftp. GraphicConverter is aswiss army knife to deal with and edit various graphic formats.To back up a disk or to migrate from a small hard disk to a largerone, I'd recommend SuperDuper!It is also good for making bootable backups.
To paste equations into PowerPoint or Office, I use tex2im, a nifty shellscript that converts equation in LaTeX to any graphics format. It canbe installed via fink and uses imagemagick. Unfortunately PowerPointbitmaps PDF and the result is not scalable. If you choose the sizeappropriately it looks fine.
Keynote users need only PDF to paste equations and Feynman diagrams.LaTeXiTprovides GUI. Keynote uses PDF directly and the result is scalable.You can also create Feynman diagrams with LaTeXiT; see instructionsby TakuYamanaka.
Applications that cost money
- Mathematica from Wolfram Research can't be missed. MatLab from The MathWorks is also available for Mac OS X.
- The Office suite from Microsoft is available and is much better than previous versions of Office. They finally look like Mac applications!
- For presentations, Apple's Keynote is rapidly gaining popularity. It allows PDF graphics without losing scalability, has cool transitions. Steve Jobs himself uses it for MacWorld keynote addresses famous for the 'reality distortion field.' It is a part of iWork package together with Pages, a combo of a word processor and a page layout program.
- All important Adobe applications are there, including Acrobat Reader, Acrobat, Illustrator, PhotoShop.
- I haven't had much problem finding good applications for research purposes. People complain that there are still less games available for Macintosh, that may be a good thing.^_^
Other links
- Mac OS X Hints provides many useful tidbits in using Mac OS X.
- download.com is a great place to look for shareware/freeware. Similar web sites are versiontracker.com, stepwise.com.
- MaCNN is a great resource for Mac OS X-related news. It also has useful forum.
- Mac OS X for Astrophysicists is an excellent page written by Edd Edmondson for astrophysicists.
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