(1) Is there any progress on being able to highlight just a subset of nodes and extract that subset as a path? (paste as a separate, "stand-alone" path)
(I realize the algorithm may not be straightforward — particularly if one makes some crazy non-continuous node selection — like, selecting every third node (rather than a subpath with all its consecutive nodes), but maybe there's already some default, "make-the-best-guess" function which would take a bunch of such nodes and figure out which ones are sequenced and how (and link them into a path), based on the parent sequences, and for those that it can't figure that out, just leave them disconnected/isolated, and let the user connect them afterwards)
(2) alignment operators: it would be nice to be able to align node A to node B. Or, IOW, stipulate that A move to B (its vertical or horizontal value), but B itself not move. Or aligning a set of nodes — A,B,C to node D, where node D doesn't move.
(As I understand it now, the vertical/horizontal align function positions all the nodes to some type of averaged value ? )
forgot to mention one more:
(3) scale up and and down selected nodes. Maybe with respect to line of symmetry, or with respect to the center of the derived box (the hypothetical box for the selected nodes).
an enhancement of the above would be the ability to pull in or spread apart (selected) nodes, horizontally ONLY, or vertically ONLY (both horizontal and vertical shifts would be the scaling)
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The names of the menu items and features could be:
(1) "extract nodes to new path" (the new path gets placed into paste buffer)
(2) "align nodes to marker node". Requires one to first select a marker node. If such is not selected, user gets the error message "No marker node selected". There might be a better word than "marker"
(3) "scale selected node subset". Preferably a box gets drawn around the node subset and allows the user to scale the box, horizontally, vertically, or both. With respect to box center.