Re: [Inkscape-user] navigational plotting

On 9/8/05, Erik <kaver@...45...> wrote:

1. Compass bearings start at 0 degrees and this starts dead vertical.
2. Compass bearings increase in a clockwise direction.
3. Compass bearings increase to 360 degrees.

No problem, I added an option "Compass-like angle display" in Inkscape Preferences (Steps tab). When on, you get the angle displayed as compass bearings.

So far this option is only used by the Pen tool. If you know of any other place which could use this option, let me know. Note that various places which display relative rotation angles (such as when rotating an object in Selector) cannot use it, because for relative rotations (1) we do need negative angles and (2) the origin point is irrelevant. So this option should only apply to places that display an absolute angle of something.