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Description of problem: Jeff, I have been playing with the next version of Fedora on a home machine. Myself and other users have discovered that there is a change to FOP that causes an error if the string <textobject><phrase>Insert Phrase Here</phrase></textobject> is excluded from a mediaobject. This bug details the FOP error and its cause: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681337 It particularly affects legacy books that were created before Publican automatically generated this string. I have just been discussing the issue with Rudi and he suggested raising an RFE with you to make Publican check for this string in all media objects. Some further thoughts from Rudi on the issue: [09:05] <rudi> I'd stop short of having Publican enforce <textobject>s in <mediaobject>s -- if anything, that needs to be enforced in DocBook [09:05] <rudi> but IMHO, shouldn't be actually enforced at all [09:06] <rudi> People should be free to make life more difficult for people with visual impairments if that's what they want to do. [09:07] <rudi> I'm happy for Publican to take an educative role by warning authors of the implications of their choices [09:07] <rudi> But authors then need to be responsible (and accountable) for the choices that they make
After some discussion with Jeff, we're in agreement that warnings like this have proved highly ineffective in the past, so I'm closing this WONTFIX. The FOP problem is a separate issue that I'll deal with in bug 681337 as soon as I know more. Cheers Rudi