On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Laudun John wrote:
There are a wide variety of Latex installations available, you need only google Latex and Mac to discover them, or perhaps someone on this list will point you to a package particularly easily adapted/ adopted by a newbie.
http://www.tug.org/~koch/NewPackages.html
If your needs are modest, chances are there is no difference between the three packages. And of course you would use TM to do the editing of the LaTeX files, and their converting to pdf.
James already pointed to the Markdown to LaTeX converter that comes with TM . Multimarkdown is an extension of Markdown, which you can read about here:
http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/MultiMarkdown
Haris