Hi,
I've had to use markers in inkscape recently and found them very frustrating: putting the markers in the middle of the semgents instead of intermediate nodes is much better in many cases. Consider a path made of horizontal and vertical segments: to show an orientation on it, you'd like to add little arrows at the middle of the segments, definitely not at the corners.
I know this contradicts the svg specification, wich has good reason to do so (in patricular, I guess the middle of a segment is not so well defined...)
Then I came to the following minimal suggestion: would it make sens to refine the svg spec to avoid/allow markers at smooth/angular points?
Even in this case, this wont be a perferct solution: in many cases, I'd like to have only one arrow at the middle of each smooth piece, even if that piece requires many points to be drawn. I don't see any svg compilent way to achieve this.
Any suggestion? we could have lpe generated markers, more or less like what "pattern along path" does, with improved placement of the pattern (= markers), but I don't like this solution, as it is not natural to use lpe to do a "stroking decoration"...
Cheers, jfb.