Andreas Neumann wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > unfortunately no and no. > > I suggested adding buffering to the vector effects but so far other > priorities within the SVG > working group seem to be more urgent. We also suggested having a "marker" > evenly > spaced along a line, not only bound to vertices, but it did not find the way > into the spec so > far either. > > My only hope is, that once the vector-effects are established, it will be > easy later to add > more effects and add your two proposed features. > > For evenly spaced markers along a line you could also use the text-align to > path features > that already exists now. You can define your marker symbols as a text-glyph > and use text > along path. It's probably not very efficient, but it works. > > Here is a graphics that was part of my buffering proposal: > > http://www.carto.net/neumann/temp/buffer_examples.svg
I am not sure to understand what your buffering is meant to do. A sort of complex strokes? > and here are more problems that arise during mapping: > > http://www.carto.net/neumann/temp/complex_linetypes.svgz > > that need to be dealt with in the future. They are interesting. I like the first one, it would allow easy design of celtic knots :-) -- Philippe Lhoste -- (near) Paris -- France -- http://Phi.Lho.free.fr -- For servers mangling my From and Reply-To fields, -- please send private answers to PhiLho(a)GMX.net -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/