[Info-vax] modern LaTeX on VMS (Alpha)

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

I know I've asked similar questions in the past, but now I have the time 
to finally get something done.

My LaTeX installation is about a dozen years old.  For most things, it 
works fine, but there are some issues involving scalable fonts, the 
times package, psnfss, "missing" .FD files etc.

In the somewhat longer term, I suppose there are several solutions:

   1  Re-install everything from scratch from some modern distribution.
      (Mine is essentially by Ralf Gärtner which was on a freeware CD
      back in the 1990s.)

   2  Keep my existing installation, but upgrade it completely and more
      or less automatically.

   3  Keep my existing installation, but upgrade it just to fix errors
      and warnings when they occur.

   4  Get some other modern distribution and adapt it for VMS.

In terms of desirability, from most to least, the order is 1, 4, 2, 3.  
In terms of speed, from fastest to slowest, the order is probably 
something like 2, 3, 1, 4 (perhaps 3, 2, 1, 4 if there are very few 
warnings and errors).

Any ideas?

Does anyone actually have an up-to-date LaTeX running on VMS?  At least 
if it is similar to the one from the freeware CD, there are just a few 
places where one needs local customization, so I could just get an 
entire up-to-date [TEXMF...], edit a couple of files, and be set.