Using viewBox to setup meaningful user coordinates and other issu es

I'm working on developing a graph in SVG that I can use as an example out
put for an XSL transform. Since I am an essentially lazy person, I want to
leave most of the hard work to someone else. 

Here's what I want to do (approximately)

<svg height="10in" width="7.5in" viewBox="-50 -100 100 200" >
	<!-- Axis stuff here -->
	<path d="M -50 -100 L 0 75 L 50 0" />
</svg>

Now the problem with that is that by drawing convensions the positive Y axis
is always pointing down. The typical graphing (not to mention geographic)
convension the positive Y axis point up. This  would suggest that what I
want to have is:

<svg height="10in" width="7.5in" viewBox="-50 -100 100 -200" >
	<!-- Axis stuff here -->
	<path d="M -50 -100 L 0 75 L 50 0" />
</svg>

Which, from my own tests, doesn't seem to work.

I've also tried:
<svg height="10in" width="7.5in" viewBox="-50 -100 100 200" >
	<g transform="scale(1, -1)" >
		<!-- Axis stuff here -->
		<path d="M -50 -100 L 0 75 L 50 0" />
	</g>
</svg>

But that didn't seem to do anything with my adobe viewer.

Also is there anyway to not scale style properties? If I have a graph that
I've had to transform to fill the available space, I really don't want to
have my strokes go from 2px up to 4px wide by 0.001 px high. I also don't
want my text, which I've place in my grid coordinates, to be stretched.


Adam van den Hoven
Internet Software Developer
Blue Zone
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Received on Wednesday, 23 May 2001 12:16:20 UTC