[Inkscape-devel] markers in arena shapes?

Mental or Bulia,

I've got a question... In looking at where marker stuff is hooked in I notice a lot of stuff in nr-arena-shape.cpp, which appears to be special casing marker elements as shape children. I'm attempting to add some documentation, but it's a little confusing to me. Could either of you explain what the design intent is for this?

In particular, I'm wondering why markers have this special case; it feels like an odd fit in nr-arena-shape since everything else is so generalized, and I'm wondering if there could be a way to generalize the markers so no special case is needed for them?

Bryce