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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <euednepvcYQ_M0fTnZ2dnUVZ_r-dnZ2d at posted.localnet>, Robert
Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes: 

> 1 or 4 is actually likely to be the easiest and most trouble.  

Least trouble?

> And this
> would likely also be the fastest actually.  The core TeX engine(s) are
> coded in C (via Web to C I guess) and in pretty standard vanila C at
> that. 

> It should be pretty trivial to just recompile the compiled code (base
> TeX engine, dvito<whatever>, metafont, etc.), re-generate the fmt files,
> and diddle the config files, etc.  Compiling the C code should be
> straightforward and painless and everything else is pretty much automated.

The main problem is having all the required style files, fonts etc in a 
directory structure where LaTeX will find them.  One also needs some 
well defined setup procedure for defining symbols, verbs, logical names 
etc.