Re: Angles in Paths

On 2/5/2016 12:06, Juergen Roethig wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> Shao Miller wrote:
>>
>> Please forgive me if I've knocked at the wrong door.  I am wondering: 
>> Is there any way to specify a 30-60-90 triangle without considering 
>> the length of the side which is incommensurable with the other two?  
>> It would seem odd to me if a person needed to describe this special 
>> triangle by first choosing some arbitrary precision with which to 
>> express the special side.  A path instruction like "turn 135 degrees, 
>> counter-clockwise" followed by a "move forward 2 units" seems like a 
>> sequence that a rendering engine could understand and would be better 
>> at choosing a precision for than a person would be.  (Remember the 
>> "Logo turtle"?)
>
> For SVG 2, this (the "turn") is in the queue as a bearing command 
> ("B") within path.
>
>> Also please forgive me if I've missed something obvious.  I searched 
>> around for a couple of hours before sending this note.
>
> You might have been able to find it in the actual working draft - see:
> https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/single-page.html#paths-PathDataBearingCommands 
>
> But this really might be hard to find :-(
>

Thank you, sir!


Shao Miller
Synthetel Corporation
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