[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Wed Jan 6 11:22:31 EST 2010


In article <00bff44f$0$17148$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> > Which tools in VMS (not layered products) output selectable fonts and 
> > selectable type sizes?  I can do a lot with TeX and LaTeX but that's not 
> > native VMS.
> 
> 
> DECwrite did it. So did DECdocument.  WPSplus had some font support as
> well (but rendered on printers, not on VT220, except for the technical
> character set).

Richard specified "(not layered products)" there.

I once used Digital Standard Runoff with a daisy wheel printer to get
special effects, though I don't remember specifics.

-- 
Paul Sture



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