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