bulia byak wrote:

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My guess is as good as yours. The original author of the tool is not active in Inkscape. I agree that the tool is pretty useless, but let it be until we have a better replacement.

I do not think the calligraphy tool is useless. I would just like to know what on earth it is doing??? It is certainly not acting like a calligraphic pen. For a start the vast majority of broad nib calligraphy is done with a constant pen angle. The current one wanders back and forth making interesting but not calligraphic marks.

The original author must have had something in mind. I just wish that I knew what it was.

Bob Jamison wrote:

I agree that the SVG spec does not have a calligraphy tool, or a drawing model to match it. But I do think that it is desirable to be able to mimic an artist pushing a drop of ink with a knife. This is -Inkscape- by the way ;-)

As long as the resulting beziers are within the SVG spec, then Cool. Nichevo podobnovo, Bratyets!

Yup. No problem with mimicing an artist pushing a drop of ink with a knife but lets not call that calligraphy even in -Inkscape-.

vellum.