- From: Shao Miller <www-svg@synthetel.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:08:22 -0500
- To: Juergen Roethig <roethig@dhbw-karlsruhe.de>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On 2/5/2016 12:06, Juergen Roethig wrote:
> 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 :-(
>
Thank you, sir!
Shao Miller
Synthetel Corporation
E: www-svg@synthetel.com
W: https://www.synthetel.com
Received on Friday, 5 February 2016 17:08:50 UTC