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@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
 <p class="warning">
   Ardour's VBAP panner is currently in development, and its semantics may
   change in the near future, possibly affecting your mixes. Please do not
-  rely on it for important production work while the dust settles.
+  rely on it for important production work while the dust settles.<br/>
+  The Panner only works in fixed static mode, it does not support
+  automation playback.
 </p>
 <p>
-  <dfn><abbr title="Vector-base Amplitude Panning">VBAP</abbr></dfn> 
+  <dfn><abbr title="Vector-base Amplitude Panning">VBAP</abbr></dfn>
   is a versatile and straightforward method to pan a source around over an
   arbitrary number of speakers on a horizontal polygon or a 3D surface,
   even if the speaker layout is highly irregular.
@@ -15,7 +17,7 @@
 <p>
   VBAP was developed by Ville Pulkki at Aalto University, Helsinki, in 2001.
   It works by distributing the signal to the speakers nearest to the desired
-  direction with appropriate weightings, aiming to create a maximally sharp 
+  direction with appropriate weightings, aiming to create a maximally sharp
   phantom source by using as few speakers as possible:
 </p>
 <ul>
@@ -29,20 +31,20 @@
   Thus, if you move the panner onto a speaker, you can be sure that only
   this speaker will get any signal. This is handy when you need precise
   1:1 routing.<br>
-  The drawback of VBAP is that a moving source will constantly change its 
-  apparent sharpness, as it transitions between the three states mentioned 
+  The drawback of VBAP is that a moving source will constantly change its
+  apparent sharpness, as it transitions between the three states mentioned
   above.
 </p>
 <p>
   A <dfn>horizontal</dfn> VBAP panner has one parameter, the <dfn>azimuth
-  angle</dfn>. A <dfn>full-sphere</dfn> panner offers an additional 
+  angle</dfn>. A <dfn>full-sphere</dfn> panner offers an additional
   <dfn>elevation angle</dfn> control.
 </p>
 <p class="note">
   More elaborate implementations of VBAP also include a
-  <dfn>spread</dfn> parameter, which  will distribute the signal over a 
-  greater number of speakers in order to maintain constant (but no longer 
-  maximal) sharpness, regardless of position. Ardour's VBAP panner does not 
+  <dfn>spread</dfn> parameter, which  will distribute the signal over a
+  greater number of speakers in order to maintain constant (but no longer
+  maximal) sharpness, regardless of position. Ardour's VBAP panner does not
   currently include this feature.
 </p>
 
@@ -54,8 +56,7 @@
   implementation must therefore include the possibility to define this
   layout.
 </p>
-<img src="/images/VBAP-panner-5.png" class="small right" alt="The VBAP
-panner with 5 outputs"/>
+<a href="/images/VBAP-panner-5.png"><img src="/images/VBAP-panner-5.png" class="right" style="width:150px;" alt="The VBAP panner with 5 outputs"></a>
 <p>
   Ardour currently uses a simplified approach: if a track or bus has more
   than two output channels (which implies stereo), it assumes that you
@@ -65,8 +66,7 @@ panner with 5 outputs"/>
   any desired spatialisation.
 </p>
 <h3>Experimental 3D VBAP</h3>
-<img src="/images/VBAP-panner-10.png" class="small right" alt="The VBAP
-panner with 10 outputs, in experimental 3D mode"/>
+<a href="/images/VBAP-panner-10.png"><img src="/images/VBAP-panner-10.png" class="right" style="width:150px;" alt="The VBAP panner with 10 outputs, in experimental 3D mode"></a>
 <p>
   For tracks with 10 outputs, Ardour will currently assume a 3-dimensional
   speaker layout corresponding to Auro-3D 10.1, which is a horizontal 5.1
@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ panner with 10 outputs, in experimental 3D mode"/>
 </p>
 
 <h2>N:M panning</h2>
-<img src="/images/VBAP-panner-4in5.png" class="small right" alt="The VBAP
-panner in 4 in, 5 out mode"/>
+<a href="/images/VBAP-panner-4in5.png"><img src="/images/VBAP-panner-4in5.png" class="right" style="width:150px;" alt="The VBAP panner in 4 in, 5 out mode"></a>
 <p>
   For tracks and busses with more than one input, Ardour will (for now) assume that
   you wish to distribute the inputs symmetrically along the latitude around