- From: Juergen Roethig <roethig@dhbw-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 18:06:23 +0100
- To: Shao Miller <www-svg@synthetel.com>
- CC: <www-svg@w3.org>
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 :-(
Best regards
Juergen Roethig
Received on Friday, 5 February 2016 17:07:06 UTC