Re: usage of evenodd fillrule

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015, at 11:26, naitgnib-/[email protected] wrote:
> I'm thinking of using IPE to draw railway lines (with alternated two
> colors, could it be red-blue than black-white). So i'm thinking of using
> evenodd fillrule, however, I did not see such example before, could
> someone teach how to set a pathstyle for railway lines? Thank you.

I don't see how fill rules would be useful for drawing railway lines -
you may be misunderstanding what they do.  See e.g. here for examples of
the even/odd rule versus the winding number rule:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/painting.html#FillProperties

By the way, even/odd rule is the default in Ipe.

Cheers,
 Otfried