Hi,<br><br>I&#39;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.<br>Consider a path made of horizontal and vertical segments: to show an orientation  on it, you&#39;d like to add little arrows at the middle of the segments, definitely not at the corners.<br>
<br>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...)<br><br>Then I came to the following minimal suggestion:<br>would it make sens to refine the svg spec to avoid/allow markers at smooth/angular points?<br>
<br>Even in this case, this wont be a perferct solution: in many cases, I&#39;d like to have only one arrow at the middle of each smooth piece, even if that piece requires many points to be drawn.<br>I don&#39;t see any svg compilent way to achieve this.<br>
<br>Any suggestion?<br>we could have lpe generated markers, more or less like what &quot;pattern along path&quot; does, with improved placement of the pattern (= markers),<br>but I don&#39;t like this solution, as it is not natural to use lpe to do a &quot;stroking decoration&quot;...<br>
<br>Cheers, jfb.<br>