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

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 4 Dec 2011 00:00:01 +0000 (UTC) helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) wrote:

> 
> 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?
  er. yes.
> 
> > 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.

Generally a typically TeX distro would have everything bundled in an
archive (eg tar file) with the proper file stucture and/or with some
build script (or Makefile), that will install everything in the right
places and/or create a DCL file that defines the logical names, etc.
that are needed.

> 
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