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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-09-11 kl. 14:27, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> On 9/10/21 3:46 PM, John Dallman wrote:
>> In article <shfk82$1fce$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>> wrote:
>>> On 9/10/2021 12:40 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> But there are billions of people using MS Office, LibreOffice,
>>> Google Docs etc..
>>
>> Pick the low-hanging fruit first? Getting LaTeX going will be
>> substantially simpler than porting Libre Office or a full-fat web browser.
> 
> Only real problem with that is no one in academia is still using VMS. And 
> updating Tex/LaTex (yes, updating as it was always available on
> VMS in the past) is not going to bring anyone back.
> 
> bill
> 

My *guess* is that there are way better and more efficient LaTeX tools
available for common desktop systems today, Windows, Linux or some Mac.
More then 99% of the LaTeX users probably have one of these already.

I have a very hard time seing why LaTeX should have any priority for VMS.