Hi, Fulio- Indeed, this is pretty simple (though not as simple as possible). Take a look at my revision of your file:
http://svg-whiz.com/svg/linguistics/fuliopen/ideograph.svg You'll see that I added another marker that faced the other direction, and referenced that on the same line using the 'marker-start' attribute. This preserves the semantics of the document and makes it more easily maintained (facts which you as a linguist and an author, respectively, should appreciate). On the subject of semantics, I also played with the structure of your file, turning your comments into the contents of 'title' elements and grouping related shapes. This makes the document a little more "object-oriented" (again, easier to maintain and extend), and more accessible (a screen reader can now describe your document to a blind person with some degree of fidelity). I also repositioned the text labels so that they are centered on the same point as the center of the associated circles. This is a handy little trick. ----------------------- A speculative note on marker enhancement: I think it would be nice if markers had an additional value for the 'orient' attribute... it would be in addition to "auto" and "<angle>", and would tell the UA to orient the marker differently depending on what its role is. So, "auto-start" (or whatever) would indicate that this marker is facing the proper direction for the 'marker-start' attribute, and that if it is used for the 'marker-end' attribute it should be reversed... or maybe this should be a new attribute on the marker element, 'role'. Anyway, just a thought. Another nice thing would be for the marker to be able to take the stroke or the fill from the "host" element's stroke, so I could use the same marker for each of 5 differently-colored lines, and it would match the color of each. Thoughts? Regards- Doug Fulio Pen wrote: | | Hello, | | Please open the following page: | | http://www.pinyinology.com/ontology/ideograph.svg | | Also please look at the line between the ideograph circle and | sound circle in the page. There is now an arrow at the upper | end of the line, pointing upward to the ideograph circle. | | I need to add an arrow at the lower end of the line, pointing | downward to the sound circle. In other words, there will be | two arrows on this line, one at each end, pointing to | opposite directions. | | The two arrows will be in exactly same shape and size. I | know this is a very simple job for professionals, but not for me. | | Thanks a lot for your help. | | Fulio Pen ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
