Re: ‘marker-knockout-left’ and ‘marker-knockout-right’ as part of 'stroke-dasharray'? from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2012-11-26 (www-svg@w3.org from November 2012)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:14:34 -0800
To: Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com>
Cc: SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDDx=4Lny5=N0Xj7RSX4tK0k3ET1_w49Bthh7wfrwZy9cA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Dirk Schulze <dschulze@adobe.com> wrote:
> Did you investigate if it makes sense to specify ‘marker-knockout-left’ and ‘marker-knockout-right’  as part of 'stroke-dash-array'? At the end we don't position markers, but "gaps" in the stroke as 'stroke-dasharray' does. It is not possible to combine 'marker-pattern' or 'marker-segment' with these properties either, right?

It seems like that would be really awkward.  You'd have to set up a
stroke gap so that it exactly aligned with a marker, which may be at a
difficult-to-calculate location.

Also, note that marker-knockout is specified on the <marker> element,
not the element that uses the marker.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 26 November 2012 19:15:22 UTC