[Info-vax] LaTeX, VMS, CM fonts, DisplayPostScript fonts, GV, GS etc

[JohnF]

In comp.text.tex Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:
> While I plan to upgrade most everything this year, at the moment I have
> VMS 7.3-2, LaTeX and [TEXMF] from about 1999 and GhostScript and
> Ghostview from around the same time.  Everything used to work fine:
> LaTeX (including PostScript figures), DVIPS then view the result with
> GV.  Unfortunately, now some fonts don't display due to the fact that 
> DisplayPostScript was removed with VMS 7.2 or whatever.
> 
> For now, I would like to stick to the same configuration but be able to 
> see all the fonts.  Is anyone here running LaTeX and GV on VMS without 
> DisplayPostScript?

Off-topic, and simply curious, but I've read some of your other
LaTeX/VMS posts, and wondered why you're investing so much effort
trying to maintain it. I have about 15 years past VMS development
experience (resume's at www.forkosh.com), but my remaining contracts
mostly involve maintaining systems after porting them away from VMS
to Unix. There's still some sporadic legacy VMS maintenance work
from clients who couldn't/wouldn't port, but as for truly new VMS
development, that's (in alphabetical order) nada/nil/zero/zip,
as far as I can tell. And while I still edit VMS code "in situ"
with edt, latex documentation is prepared on a linux pc (or windows
if forced). Even if a current and completely functional texlive
distribution were available on VMS, I'd just never use it.
I always liked the platform, but it just doesn't seem like
the right place to continue working anymore.
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j at f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )