Re: [Inkscape-user] navigational plotting

On 9/8/05, mental@...32... <mental@...32...> wrote:

I think you may have been spending too much time down here in programmer-land. ^_-

Seriously, ask a roomfull of graphic designers which makes more sense... I bet they will say 0 at north, positive angles clockwise.

We should not limit ourselves to graphic designers. What about mathematic illustrations?

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle#Conventions_on_measurement, the mathematical convention is listed first, and is said to be "universally adopted in mathematical writing". The navigational convention is mentioned second.

So, I still disagree. Maybe we can do the navigational one the default, but the option is quite valid.