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 500 Lines or Less has been successfully built on several Linux systems, as well
 as OSX 10.10+. Almost all of the software mentioned in the below instructions
 should be available via your favorite package manager, with the possible
-exception of LaTex on OS X (common practice seems to be installing
+exception of LaTeX on OS X (common practice seems to be installing
 [MacTex](https://tug.org/mactex/) via the pkg installer.)
 
 ## Base instructions: