[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS Conference Call - 08:00 EDT 16 Sep 2021

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <shfk82$1fce$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> > Something to think about: LaTeX and associated software is used by a
> > huge number of people.
> 
> Depends on what you consider huge number.
> 
> There must be hundreds of thousands of people using Tex/LaTex at
> universities particular at math and natural sciences departments.

True.  However, probably more people use LaTeX than, say, Python.

> > Two approaches are worth considering.  One would be getting the TeXLive
> > distribution to build out of the box on VMS.  The other would be to have
> > a minimal distribution which would automatically fetch anything found to
> > be missing from a CTAN mirror somewhere.
> 
> Pascal or C version of the tools?

I think that the C version of TeX is officially compatible to the 
original.  On the other hand, on VMS there is no reason not to use 
Pascal.