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Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> I would be very glad if anyone has time to try to merge my version and
> the trunk version.

This discussion brings to mind a quote by the physicist Wolfgang Pauli.
In 1958, writing about on a colleague's (specious) claims to have found
a unified field theory, he drew a big blank rectangle, and remarked:

  This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian.
  Only technical details are missing.