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I don't think this is a valid issue.  Look at his child frame in the sample
document.  It is marked to wrap "in background", and that is exactly what
OpenOffice writer does- it puts the child frame in the background.  So, of
course the parent frame is going to show through!

I should clarify:

It isn't exactly clear what OpenOffice means by "in background", for frame
wrapping, but:

1) The described behavior is exactly what OO has always done.
2) I can't think of any other meaning for "in background" if OO writer doesn't
behave this way.
3) I like to think of "in background" as meaning "make this frame not wrap and
go behind other frames as if the other frames were transparent, except for the
background.
4) You can see that it really is not "transparency" because if you set different
colors on the backgrounds of the parent and child frames, they don't combine. 
The child background takes precedence.

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