LaTeX for Mac

Whew, it's been a long time since my last post -- between work emails and (more recently) Facebook, my spare time for blogging/keeping up with folks for leisurely purposes has apparently all but vanished.

Why the post now? Well, continuing the theme of some previous posts, I'm writing to say that I've finally made the leap and tried LaTeX for document creation. Admittedly, I haven't been brave (foolish?) enough to completely severe my ties with the M$ equivalents. However, I will be writing my new biostatistics lectures with LaTeX, and I'm pretty excited about that, given the likely amount of formulae I'll want to include over the span of 18 lectures.

My front end is TeXShop, and I've also installed Beamer for presentations. Want a fool-proof installation experience? Then go here (for TeXShop) and then here (for Beamer). I don't throw around 'sudo' and 'bash' in everyday conversation (yet?), so it was nice to have step-by-step instructions in both cases.