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Getting started

Instalation

First of all you need to have a translator of from .ttex format to .tex. This is a command tool called texgen. If you are using Windows operating system, you can download binary of the latest version of it from the release page. You can find an archieve with source code there too.

Hello, LaTeX

Create the file hello-tex.ttex with the following code:

@Define
  @Environments
    Document = @TexBeginEnd "document"
    Tex      = @Verb

@Tex
  \documentclass{article}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

@Document
  Hello, \LaTeX!

Copy texgen file into the directory of the source file, open command line and run:

./texgen hello.ttex

In the same folder hello.tex file will appear. If you open it, you will see:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}
  Hello, \LaTeX!
\end{document}

All you need now is to compile the resulting file in any way you like. For example, using pdflatex

pdflatex hello.tex

Then hello.pdf file will be created. If you open it, you will see:

What we have done?

Let's go through our first programm. First of all there was the block of definitions.

@Define
  @Environments
    Document = @TexBeginEnd "document"
    Tex      = @Verb

It should be the first block (or, in more LaTeX terminology, environment) in the file. There can be some types of definitions: Environemts, Prefs and MathCommands. Here we have defined only two environments...

More examples

More examples may be found on Simple examples. Step by step