On 10-09-12 13:50, Johan Engelen wrote:
On 10-9-2012 9:24, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
On 09-09-12 14:13, Johan Engelen wrote:
On 9-9-2012 12:15, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
Hi,
Can someone quickly remind me what the problem is with the current SVG 'z' syntax to close a path?
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Additionally, it leads to some funky problems in Inkscape's UI. Essentially, if a closed path starts and "ends" with a cubic Bézier, we try to hide the fact that there is actually another (zero-length) line segment in between. However, if you then use relative coordinates, or do other things that might lead to small numerical differences between the start and "end" node, then you suddenly do see the extra closing line segment (even though the structure of the path has not changed).
Indeed, but I think these are Inkscape issues that not necessarily SVG induced ;)
Not really, the way 'z' is interpreted now, Inkscape either has to rely on exact(!) coincidence of the start and end node to hide the fact that there really is another segment, or now and then show an, that users cannot get rid of (and complicates selecting nodes and so on).
(Good of ~suv to think of markers btw, that's even more serious.)