On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:00:16 -0500, Kevin Wixson <kevin@...738...> wrote:
I can make lots and lots of "shapes" in Inkscape that aren't created with the Ellipse, Rectangle, Spiral or Star tool, and I need a way to refer to them without confusing the reader.
Call them what they are - paths or objects.
I don't think it's really possible to refer to "shapes" and mean exclusively those objects created by the Ellipse, Rectangle, Spiral and Star tools in Inkscape.
It is. Just a matter of getting used to.
You will confuse readers and hamstring writers by making it so they have to explain, every time they want to use the word "shape" or "shapes" and are referring to the meaning of the word in everyday English, as in "you can create different shapes," that they don't mean "those special shapes in Inkscape made with the Ellipse, Rectangle, Spiral and Star tool and can still be transformed with those tools."
No. You can create different objects. Some of the objects are paths. Some are shapes. Some are neither. What's wrong with that? Why can you use "paths" as a term but cannot use "shapes" as another term?