From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T12:13:59+09:00
Subject: Re: DocBook to PDF


On Nov 12, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:

> Bob Hutchison wrote:
>> My first thought is Holy Crap! Really, I've got a kid about that  
>> age :-)
>
> Huh? Smiley or not, I don't get this remark. And I so hate to be
> humor-impaired.  ;)


I meant to answer this, but today's news does a better job:

FOP 0.9 alpha 1 was released today <http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ 
0.90/>

 From that page:

> The Apache FOP team is proud to present to you the largely  
> rewritten codebase which is finally in a state where you can start  
> to use it. It has taken over three years to get this  far and over  
> two years without a new release from the FOP project. We would like  
> to encourage you to download the code and to play with it. We're  
> still in the process of adding new major  features and stabilizing  
> the code. We welcome any feedback you might have and even more,  
> any  other form of help to get the project forward.


*Three* years!

That's why I had the reaction.

As for the phrasing, it is just an annoying phrase rather common  
among kids these days.

Cheers,
Bob

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