On May 12, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Maximilian Albert wrote:

Whoa, that's a cool concept!! I had a few free minutes today and just

committed a proof-of-concept toy to lib2geom which shows that it's

probably quite easy to add such a functionality to the Pencil tool. It

can be added to Inkscape when 0.47 is out.

Thinking about it, I realize that Bulia has all the needed GUI functionality working now with the "engraving tools". He's locking in the cursor, adjusting it, etc. So in essence we have the automatic guides part and all the low-level, and only need to look into the high-level of the templates themselves.