On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Neil Puttock <n.putt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/6/4 Patrick McCarty <pnor...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Another option is to use the 'path routine.  This isn't documented yet
>> and is a little cumbersome to use, but you can find an example that
>> uses 'path in this snippet:
>>
>>  http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=623
>
> I see \eyeglasses uses make-postscript-markup; I guess it should be
> rewritten using 'path (or ideally, implemented as a glyph).
> Unfortunately it uses `arc' to create the lenses, which will be a pain
> to approximate using curveto (the usual suggestion being four bezier
> quadrants as a fair approximation. :)

Yeah, it's unfortunate that the SVG Tiny 1.2 spec doesn't support the
arc path commands.  SVG 1.1 does, but I want to make sure we support
Tiny 1.2 too.

Using four bezier curves to approximate a circle is probably "close enough".

Thanks,
Patrick

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