Hello. My project is essentially a replacement for a small subset of LaTeX. I use LaTeX for a lot of my own work but the massive amount of converters going from LaTeX to PDF is the reason I started this project in the first place.
Understood. Is your project open source? I'm curious to see what the solution looks like when you sort it out. I feel like there must be a lot of heavy lifting (but also a lot of cruft if all you care about is a narrow case) being done by pdflatex to get to an output pdf. It will be interesting to see what the minimal solution looks like.
Hello. It will be open source once I release it -- I am hoping by August, since I have the summer off by a stroke of luck.