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I'm thinking of a (La)TeX myself, but more in the lines of eXTeX[0], as it is wirtten in Java. [0] https://github.com/tex-other/extex/tree/master

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That's awesome. I hadn't come across eXTeX before. For my use case, the main constraint is compatibility with existing LaTeX CVs and their packages, fonts and assets, rather than the language the engine is written in. I'd be curious how far eXTeX gets with modern LaTeX documents in practice. Have you experimented with compiling real world templates with it?

I must first get it compile, the java source is very old, but as it adheres to the TeX-standard modern templates should not be a problem, except for those which ise lua, of course

> I'd be curious how far eXTeX gets with modern LaTeX documents in practice.

The LaTeX kernel requires some primitives [0] that are unlikely to be supported in a 15-year-old engine, so you probably won't be able to use any version of TeX Live newer than TL20.

[0]: https://texdoc.org/serve/ltnews31/0#section*.29

[1]: https://repo.autonoma.ca/repo/keentype

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