Waterloo Script will work just fine with TSO. If only VM/SP were public domain I'd suggest XEDIT as a reason to learn VM.
PS is a low level language; think Java byte code or z without HLASM to automate things. I suspect that CTAN has LaTeX package to handle you building plans. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll [jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 3:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, at 17:36, David Spiegel wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > CBT Files 280-287 (cbttape.org) Thank-you! At last, a compelling reason to install Hercules and some ancient version of VM (not used that for real since 1985 or so, though), or - since I see the CBT tapes mention a TSO command processor and a "prompter" for Waterloo Script - maybe (since I have a lot more MVS experience than VM) Hercules and one of the MVS38J systems. I'll add that to my long list of things to do when I have the time and energy to attempt it. I have also contemplated learning PostScript ... A few years ago there was a discussion on a Debian mail list (I've never used any form of linux system except for a live CD one to rescue files from a corrupt disk, but I lurk on various mail-lists looking for interesting discussions)... In this case it was about software for preparing drawings for house changes etc. Various people commented that they found GUI applications really hard to learn just enough to prepare a single set of plans. Someone commented that they had prepared plans for a building project using PS; I managed to get a copy of that - just 800 lines of code in a plain text file ... which - when opened in a PDF/PS viewer - produces a 4-page building plan. I am quite sure that working out how the 800 lines produce that would be a lot less hard than learning a GUI system, not least because one can embed comments in the PS explaining why one is doing something in a particular way. What's more, I thought I could probably write some nifty rexx to produce PS, if I ever decided to use this approach myself. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
