[Info-vax] interactively edit PDF files on VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <mk3qau$1ev$1 at news.kjsl.com>,
	helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
> In article <5564f3a2$0$21240$e4fe514c at dreader37.news.xs4all.nl>, MG
> <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> writes: 
> 
>> > LaTeX is very portable.  Sure, one can "package" it to make it easier
>> > to set up on VMS, but LaTeX itself is portable---text files for
>> > configuration, portable code, etc.
>> 
>> I'm actually a big proponent and fan of TeX/LaTeX, derivatives and spin-
>> offs.  It's too bad it seemingly began to decline, approximately during
>> the AXP age (in my estimation).  But perhaps that's also because
>> DECdocument stole its thunder?  (It was apparently good enough for DEC,
>> Compaq and HP for authoring manuals and such, from what I understand.)
> 
> I think that the competition between LaTeX and DECdocument (which IIRC 
> uses TeX internally) is essentially zero.
> 
> The main users of LaTeX are the academic community, and VMS has declined 
> here much more than elsewhere.  About 25 years ago VMS might have been 
> more common in academia than unix.  By the late 1990s, at the latest, it 
> had essentially disappeared.

Well, I can tell you this.  Back when we used VMS for academic use TeX
and LaTeX were available and used extensively.  It's availability on
the PC probably ate into this as academic interest in VMS waned.

And, not only do I have one faculty member who does pretty much all
of his student handouts and exams in LaTeX but it just so happens that
I have been working with LaTeX and raw TeX quite a bit so far this morning.

bill
 

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