To TeX/LateX einai ena susthma stoixeio8esias (typesetting), poy briskotan se eyreia xrhsh sthn dekaetia 75-85. Einai kai shmera xrhsimo gia thn syggrafh episthmonikou keimenoy, ka8ws yposthrizei polu kala tis ma8hmatikes parastaseis (petajte to word gia panta), ta (polytonika) ellhnika kai lunei polla idiory8ma typografika problhmata.
Ta sxetika me to TeX/LateX, yparxoyn pleon se ena jexwristo HOWTO: GreekTeXFAQ. Deite gia ta sxetika kai to kefalaio Links-gia-Tex .
To TeX einai ena programma poy eftiaje arxika o ka8hghths Donald E. Knuth toy Stanford University, gia to gracimo keimenwn me polla ma8hmatika. Arxika to TeX den yposthrize ellhnika, para mono ta liga ellhnika sumbola poy xrhsimopoioun oi ma8hmatikoi polles fores gia na dhlwsoyn metablhtes se ejiswseis opws:
$ y = \alpha\,x^2 $
\alpha me to ellhniko "a".
Ayto omws den einai kai toso boliko, giati to TeX xeirizetai kapws diaforetika ta ellhnika se math-mode (to eidiko mode toy TeX sto opoio grafetai ka8e ejiswsh) kai diaforetika se horizontal-mode poy grafetai to aplo keimeno. Kai safws kaneis den 8a h8ele na prepei na grafei tragika pragmata opws:
{$\Epsilon$}$\lambda${$\lambda$}$\'\alpha${$\delta$}$\alpha$.
Mia prwth lush hr8e me to project BABEL toy TeX-Users-Group, h opoia perigrafetai parakatw.
To project BABEL mporei na bre8ei se ola ta
Comprehensive-TeX-Archive-Network (CTAN) mirrors.
Einai sto directory .../tex-archive/babel/
kai h ellhnikh yposthrijh toy BABEL yparxei sto
.../tex-archive/babel/greek/* .
To project BABEL exei ftiax8ei kyriws apo jenoys, omws, poy den grafoyn se "pragmatika ellhnika", alla se greeklish. Etsi, gia paradeigma h lejh "Ellada" grafetai san:
\GR{}Ella'da\EN{}
Poy einai safws mia beltiwsh apo to apaisio $...$ kolpo.
Me ta katallhla filtra to BABEL mporei na ftiax8ei etsi wste na yposthrizei pragmatika ellhnika, kai telika na grafei kaneis:
Ellada
Sto ITY (Institouto Texnologias Ypologistwn), yparxei ena project me to onoma GRTeX. Blepe "Diplwmatikh ergasia GRTeX, Stefanos Magganarhs, Iounios 1989, Patra, Tmhma Mhx. H/Y kai Plhr."
Epishs, o G. Sphliwths exei kanei diplwmatikh ergasia sto Pan/mio A8hnas gia Ellhnika sto TeX/LaTeX.
Oi ejyphretes toy CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Netowrk) einai: