Section 2 Required Software
Instructors and learners having online classes in MathPage do not need anything else than a web browser connected to the Internet.
An author publishing to MathPage must have a LaTeX typesetting system available as well as utility software openssh and rsync for uploading files to MathPage.1 These are all free software.
Writing books using LaTeX consists of editing document source files using a LaTeX editor and compiling using a LaTeX typesetting system. Depending on your platform, the following LaTeX systems are available. These systems also include LaTeX editors.
For Mac, we recommend
which includes a superb LaTeX editor TeXShop. For Linux, we recommend
and for Windows we recommend
TeXLive and MiKTeX also include a very nice LaTeX editor called TeXworks.
You need openssh installed on your computer. First open a terminal.2 In the terminal, type
to check the version. If this fails, then you have to install it. On Mac, you can use Homebrew.3 On Linux (and on WSL), you use apt tools.
You need rsync installed. In terminal, type
to check the version of the rsync installed. To work well with MathPage, the version should be above 3.0. If this is not the case on your computer, use Homebrew or apt to install the latest version.