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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/19/2022 3:11 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <61e85855$0$700$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> Then---drumroll, please---I moved from writing the LaTeX by hand (from
>>> templates, of course), with all the \include commands, to writing a
>>> normal LaTeX document which is then PARSED BY A DCL SCRIPT to create
>>> usually several hundred pages of LaTeX source.
>>>
>>> Later I added the possibility to add a header or footer to each slide,
>>> also via the DCL script.
>>>
>>> I have seen DCL procedures with tens of thousands of lines.  :-)
>>
>> Python or Perl would likely have been both shorter and faster.
> 
> Including the time to install them on VMS and learn them?  :-|

No.

But that effort would be beneficial for many other problems.

Arne