Jeff, 

I've just took leave of FOP for good (see somewhere up in the thread), but
what you say preserves a quick answer.

There is no mistake, I am on the proper list: regarding FOP I wanted to be a
user. Besides you have probably saw up in this thread what led to this
exchange. There is, however, a prelude to all this. Because, you know, I
took the trouble to submit a number of bug reports. What drove my blood
pressure up were the reactions they elicited. (You may see it for yourself
if you want to.) As a professional I found this remark (from the lead
developer himself) the most vexing

"Frankly, I'm surprised to see b-p-d and i-p-d applicable to inline at all.
After
all it's the only FO which generates normal areas, not viewport or reference
areas that i-p-d and b-p-d applies to. That's weird IMO! IMO it would
sufficed
to let inline-container handle this case. Too bad, we haven't implemented
that
one, yet."

(I checked and found that the actual state is worse: i-p-d of fo:inline at
least preserves the content, with i-p-d on fo:inline-container the content
simply dissapears!)

Finally the ignition was this comment from Andreas L. Delmell

"If you really, really need this feature, then you're welcome to  
checkout the source w/ Subversion and build-it-yourself."

Now, English is not my native tongue, but surely there is a fine sneer in
this.

I am not considering showing irritation inappropriate only bad tactics. But
I do think that the way my bug reprorts were handled bordered on bad
manners.

Finally what you say about Open Source is more realistic that the definition
your collegues tried to thrust on me but still far from the complete
picture.

Thanks anyway for your trouble

Bye

JN

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