for those who are interested
xo-pfloat now compiles with somewhat horrible output
(but never finishes the last page)
xo-balance compiles and finishes
basically the whole module is broken since I started to add balancing support,
way back (and then got sidetrack with a couple of books).
however, it is now using all the new kernel commands so it doesn't fall over
with unknown syntax, which is a start.
- if you want to try, you basically need all of the xor module anew (and
probably some of the expl3 core as well, as i had to fix one or the other
thing there too.
frank