starting work on alignDataToRibbon(...)...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
alignDataToRibbon(...) done, needs testing...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>
alignDataToRibbon(...) working, needs more testing + identified a class of buggs (see TODO.otl)...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>