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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <iq3o6bFk2mqU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
<bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 

> >>> 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.
> > 
> > Well, I still use it.  I'm probably not the only one, but I agree, VMS
> > is rare in academia these days.
> 
> And what part of academia are you in?  Does your University have VMS
> machines in its data center?  I used VMS right up until the pushed me
> out the door at my University.  Sadly, that did not constitute use
> of VMS in academia.

I consider myself part of academia, but use VMS at home.  :-)

> Why on earth would any non-academic want to use Latex?  

Because it's better.

> A more likely
> scenario is that academia will stop requiring Latex and go with DOCX
> like everyone else in the world.

Unlikely.  At least in some fields, essentially all articles are written 
in LaTeX.