pptex is a LaTeX Add-In for
PowerPoint 2016+ for Mac allowing for insertion of equations rendered as PDF
with pdflatex. The LaTeX source is stored as alternative text with the
equations in the slides, so that running the pptex
macro on a selected pptex equation
object allows for re-editing of the existing equation starting from the
original LaTeX equation source.
Get Installpptex.tbz from the releases
and run the unpacked installer.
A PowerPoint Add-in file will be stored in ~/Documents/pptex and an
applescript to launch an external editor and run pdflatex in
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.microsoft.PowerPoint.
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A working installation of
pdflatexincluding the standalone package (which often is already included in standard installations). Choices forpdflatexinstallations include MacPorts, Fink, and MacTeX. -
An editor to create LaTeX source for equations to be inserted into PowerPoint presentations. So far, due to the need at the scripting side to detect if the editor has closed the LaTeX source file, only TextMate seems to work reliably with pptex.