2012/9/10 Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...>:
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).
I previously wrote this in an accidentally off-list response: the workaround to this problem is to always write out the moveto command that starts a new subpath and the last point of the last segment in absolute coordinates. This way the start and end nodes will always coincide exactly.
A better solution would be to allow 'z' not only as a segment, but also in place of the last coordinate. For example: d="M 1,1 ... C 4,3 2,2 z" would be equivalent to "M 1,1 ... C 4,3 2,2 1,1 z".
Regards, Krzysztof