[Info-vax] LaTeX etc. on VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <312349fd-0c91-4dde-81b7-0c610d60918e at googlegroups.com>,
Richard Levitte <richard at levitte.org> writes: 

> https://www.tug.org/texlive/
> 
> TeX Live seems to be *the* dist du jour.
> 
> I have no idea whatsoever what kind of work is needed to bring it up to speed on VMS.  It might be simple, it might be a major pain in the darker regions...  I wish I had the time, but sadly, I'm already majorly sucked in elsewhere.

Thanks for the reply.  But if YOU can't find the time, who can?

I don't think that it is actually that much work.  One needs someone who
is familiar with LaTeX on VMS and with modern distributions.  Or one of
each: someone who is familiar with LaTeX on VMS, and someone who else is
familiar with modern distributions. 

Patrick Daly is someone well known in the LaTeX world who uses, or used 
to use, LaTeX on VMS.  Lamport was, IIRC, working at DEC when he 
developed LaTeX; maybe he developed it on VMS, I don't know.  It is 
famously very portable, so a "port" can't be that big an effort.