Hi Seth,
happy to see another origamist trying to use inkscape for diagramming.
*Something like "styles" Its annoying to constantly have to input different values into the fill and stroke window. I should be able to just chose a preset style, that would for example, make the line .8 pt with a dot dash stroke. Then another style that is 1 pt, and has an arrow end marker and a solid stroke pattern etc.
I tried to solve this before with my OriSVG using the CSS way, defining stylesheet and using the "class" attribute to define styles of each symbols with keywords, something like that:
<!-- Mountain fold --> <path d="..." class="valley fold" /> <!-- Valley fold --> <path d="..." class="valley fold" /> <!-- X-ray --> <path d="..." class="xray fold" /> <!-- Fold in front / unfold arrow --> <path d="..." class="front unfold arrow" />
With som CSS stuff like that: .fold {stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1pt; } .valley {stroke-dasharray:6 3; } .mountain {stroke-dasharray:6 2 4 2 4; } .x-ray { stroke-dasharray: 2 4; } .arrow { stroke:#000000;stroke-width:2pt; } .front {marker-end:#front;} .behind {marker-end:#behind;} .unfold {marker-begin:#unfold;}
Unfortunately, CSS in inkscape are read-only and every changes of classe attr in the tree during editing as no effect. You need to reopen the document to see the changes. So with the current behaviour of inkscape the way I want to improve the use of an origamic stylesheet is inconsistent. I filled some requested features last year asking to improve the treatement of style attr in inkscape, suggesting firstly that only values different from the SVG default should be written in this attribute to avoid the interferences between CSS stylesheet changes and style attribute automatic update.
*Different arrow heads. I tried to find this out on the wikipage, but couldn't. How do I customize arrow heads? Different size maybe (I think they're too small) and also a different shape that I have in mind.
in markers.svg. You can too define some new arrows in a template file, placing it in the <defs /> element of the tree. and use your template file to edit your new origamic documents.
*Something like an image palette. How can I draw little images (you can see the kind that I mean in between step 5 and 6 on the attached doc) and have them easily accessible, so I don't have to go through old documents and copy and paste, each time I re-use them (which is often).
should be a really good feature. Currently, I use a template file with my symbols outside the physical page, and using their by the copy/paste or the clone mecanism. For style, I use copy/paste the style.
Aurèle