Re: [Inkscape-devel] User experience

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:24:44 +0100, Pierre Boulenguez <boulenguez@...558...> wrote:

* geometrical constraints (draw a tangent line, a perpendicular
  ...), Rhinoceros3d has a very good look&feel for this.

Might be nice but I don't really see how this would fit our interface. I don't know anything about Rhinoceros3d; can you elaborate?

* mathematical characters. For this, xfig behavior is good to me as
  it allows to insert Latex characters computed externally. The
  problem here is that it cannot be integrated into SVG isn't it ?

In principle it's possible to do an extension that would store LaTeX fragments in extension attributes, run TeX to convert them to EPS, and import that EPS as an object. This was discussed here some time ago. All we need is a programmer motivated to do that.

* a simple way to add an arc between two lines to represent angles
  (very important  :-)  ).

That's easy. Draw a circle from the tip of the angle with Ctrl+Shift, then drag the two handles at the right side of the circle to create an arc. See the Shapes tutorial for more details.