Ulrich,

 > Hi,
 >
 > after a long time and after changing from YandY to fpTeX I made an
 > attempt to compile xo-pfloat with the new OR (with PDFLaTeX).
 >
 > I got the following error message:
 >
 > [snip]
 > (c:/TeX/texmf/tex/latex3/xor/xo-alloc.sty
 >
 > ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
 >
 > See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
 > Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 >  ...
 >
 > l.29 \chardef\@kludgeins="F
 >                            C\relax^^M
 > ?
 > [snip]
 >
 > and the same for \insc@unt"FC\relax
 >
 > After changing these hex values to decimal everything compiled
 > perfectly well. Now I'm wondering if this is well-known, a bug, or
 > something wrong with my setup.

my guess would be that there is something wrong with your setup. looks to me
as if perhaps " is active (german.sty loaded or something into the format) and
that results in the above problem. I just ran those files (the way they are on
texlive6 through pdflatex and they compile there without any problems).

to identify that better one would need to trace that error a bit closer (eg
putting \tracingall just in front) to see what exactly triggers the error.


 > BTW are there new developments concerning this stuff (OR, grid design,
 > etc.)?

other than the frontmatter stuff (which is also more than a year old) nothing
has happened from my end as I had and have private troubles that kept me from
doing much LaTeX related work.

frank