Just need a place to post an illustration of the FAPI workflow
to let some of the FAPI experts see if it's right.   new14.06 KB
The Open Office file for the illustration.  new20.91 KB  OK, new
version attached. Note that I've done it under Windows OOo2.2,
so fonts might be slightly different under Linux (things might
be a tighter fit, is the most notable change).  1. I've stuck
elements in blocks of pale grey, to sort of establish a more
intuitive, higher-level framework. I'm not sure on the
Prepare/Build boundary, but the rest of the blocks seemed pretty
obvious.  2. I've gone for strong colour-coding as I think it's
visually more useful e.g. in the Prepare block, you can now see
the hooks really clearly  3. I've minimized a lot of repeated
text ( (c) Edward Tufte, probably) to emphasize the function
names while still permitting the whole function name to be
extracted. Given that hooks are yellow, you don't need to be
distracted by lots of "hook_" all over the place.  Hope this is
all OK.  The file won't op