On 14/12/10 20:16, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
W dniu 14 grudnia 2010 17:10 użytkownik ~suv
[3] IMHO it is crucial to make this configurable, else Inkscape will shut out major user groups (technical drawings, diagrams / function plots for scientific publications, possibly font design, etc.), which haven't been vocal in the recent discussions because they are not aware of planned changes to just switch the coordinate system (to accommodate the (IMHO) more vocal web design community).
I'm not 100% sure about making this configurable. The first step would be to make the UI coord system match the document coord system; then we can make improvements in configurability.
As for function plotting, I don't think anyone is going to manually input points using document coordinates, they are going to define a transform which establishes the coordinate system of their choice. There's also the function plotter extension.
Take 'function plotting' off that list as an unfortunate choice of terms - technical drawings, diagrams and (mathematical) illustrations is what I most had in mind - anything that relates to being constructed or arranged with coords based on the Carthesian coordinate system with a positive or standard orientation, as used in math and e.g. in CAD applications.
~suv