Hello, LaTeX3 requires additional primitives neither present in TeX nor e-TeX and I had hence to develop these primitives on the TeX/e-TeX engine. The result is Prote (MIT licensed change file), compatible with TeX, with e-TeX and providing the primitives required now by the latest LaTeX developments. Some additional file handling had to be developed as well (\input primitive) and this has been done too (this was a major work also).
I have published a new version of kerTeX, with the LaTeX recipe (latex.sh) updated as well so that kerTeX will progressively return being really "live" that is: taking whatever is current on CTAN to update packages with a seldom need to update the recipe itself (since I was blocked by the new LaTeX development, I had to cache the "old" versions of the CTAN packages on my site so that everything will not fail due to the LaTeX evolution). I have tested an early version on 9front/amd64 and there was no error. If I find the time (I'm short on it right now) I will test it also with 9legacy/rpi. Future directions: Prote is an uniq engine compatible with standard TeX, with e-TeX and now with LaTeX requirements. I'd like to make it able to be the formatting engine for *roff macros too so that an uniq program will be able to do all. It still depends on nothing but only on libc (with the exception of one file related primitive, it was even only standard C libc, not requiring even POSIX.1). And it is unencumbered. FWIW, -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ http://www.sbfa.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T72be67a64cf3bb84-Me34dbe47479ab09644a20ef3 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription