If I have a path with, say, 100 nodes, 30 of which constitute a separate, continuous "subpath" -- discontinous from the other 70, and I can easily highlight these 30 nodes -- how can I extract/cut or copy these nodes and "paste" them as a separate path?? Or, in other words, "break away" this part of the big path and convert it into a distinct path. It's already possible to DELETE these 30 nodes (or whatever nodes one has selected, discretely or not).
This seems like it should be relatively trivial for inkscape (given the powers it already has), but I can't find a way to do this. Is it perhaps in the filters? In the extensions?
It's like there should be an extensions submenu called "selected nodes..."
with options in that submenu including:
extract selected nodes as distinct path (to be pasted) rotate selected nodes scale selected nodes.. ... etc., etc.