Hello all,

I've recently come across the mathematical symbol for infinity in Wikimedia Commons, which is a GIF file, and features a request for a SVG version. Well, I've been playing around with Inkscape a bit, so I thought I could give it a try.

Now, the symbol for infinity is a lemniscate, which is also filled to match a particular typeface. Since there's a very nice formula for the lemniscate, and I'm a complete zero in design, I thought making a path that corresponds to the points given by the formula and subsequently stroking it with a caligraphic pen - the nib - would give a decent approximation.

I got stuck on the formula part. I read about Inkscape extensions, and even read the Kochify script, which seems a nice starting point. But even though it seems possible to do the lemniscate this way, it was not really what I had in mind: I thought I could write some kind of input file to inkscape which also used python/perl constructs to cope with maths/cycles, whatever. In effect, I wanted to operate Inkscape using a scripting engine.

Is this usage possible? Since a few graphics programs have this type of interface, I suppose the proposal came up. Has it been, or are there any plans for implementation?

Regards,

Renato