Re: painting the dashes and gaps in a stroke-dasharray

How about stroke-background?  (or stroke-bg)

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net> wrote:
> Frequently, one wishes to determine the colors of both the gaps and the
> dashes of a stroke.
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> Usually I have done this by drawing two (or more) copies of the path with
> different strokes: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/notknot.svg
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> When the paths, though are huge (as in cartography) then repeatedly drawing
> the path is not so efficient, performance-wise.
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> So in the use case where we have a boundary of a region that is stroked one
> color on the French side and another color on the Belgian side and where
> there may be a lake contained in France but sharing the border with Belgium,
> we may wish to be able to adjust both colors of the dasharray as it has been
> dually positioned on either side of a path segment shared by two superpaths.
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> One way to do this would be
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> <path stroke=”red” stroke-dasharray="8,18" stroke-gappaint=”blue”>
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> Another more expressive syntax would allow independent coloration of each
> segment of the dash-array:
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> <path stroke=”red” stroke-dasharray="8,18,8,18"
> stroke-dashpaint=”red,green,red,yellow” > in which paint server to each
> segment of the path is author-controlled.
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> The latter might be very handy for mathematicians and jewelry makers (there
> is a theory of beading and necklaces, that ties in rather nicely to the
> theory of knots, as applied to weaving, fabric and textiles. BTW, I have run
> into people in the textiles industry who are using SVG!). But, generally, I
> am of the theory that more expressiveness is better, (particularly when it
> is cheap, effort-wise), since the endless creativity of humans will usually
> find something to do with the tools they are given.
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> Cheers
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> David
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Received on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 16:16:37 UTC