On Oct 6, 2005, at 1:30 AM, Peter B. West wrote:
I've been stewing on this for quite a while, and as you, at least,
seem to have missed the point, I'll vent.
Sorry to hear that you were stewing about this. I suspect it feels
better now that it's out in the open (although I'm not convinced this
is the best place for it--it might be, I'm just not convinced...).
I don't have a lot of emotion about this either way (although I admit I
was sad to see you and Victor Mote curtail your contributions to FOP).
Does any record of any of this remain on the web site? No. All trace
of alt-design has been vigorously scrubbed from the site. A bit thank
you to Glen and to Jeremias. Not only does this amount to the
re-writing of FOP history, but it was detrimental to the development
effort. A number of observations which have been made recently were
discussed in detail in the alt-design documentation, notably in
respect of space-resolution and footnotes.
Actually there is a mention on the FOP Resources page[1]:
- [software] Folio[2] a renderer for XML files containing Formatting
Object elements (aka FOP Alt.Design)
It may not be much comfort, but it appears that fop/design/alt.design
wasn't totally removed[3]. Just the links to it were removed. That was
either an oversight on my part (I thought I removed it), or perhaps the
content slipped back in when we switched from CVS to SVN. I found it w
a google search[4].
In any case, I for one continue to find pleasure in your continued
presence on FOP-DEV. I learn a lot about FOP from your POSTs and am
still feel sadness that you are no longer a member of the FOP Team
(although you still post, which counts, in my book!). If you would like
to talk further about this (either continuing this thread or off-line
which may be more appropriate), I welcome it.
[1] FOP Resources:
<http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/resources.html#products-other>
[2] Folio:
<http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio>
[3] alt.design
<http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/design/alt.design/>
[4] Google Search for 'site:xmlgraphics.apache.org alt.design
alt-design'
<http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&q=site%3Axmlgraphics.apache.org+alt.design+alt-
design&btnG=Google+Search>
Regards,
Web Maestro Clay
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