Name the colour a reader sees, and fix the 17 diagrams that drew the wrong one
Every alt text that said "accent" now says what is actually on screen: curve
green, region orange, point blue or number purple for a produced type, plain
blue where the colour only marks which item is new, selection red where the
subject is what is selected, and group blue for a group box. Fifty in all, and
no alt text in the English wiki contains the word "accent" any more.
Reviewing the pictures against the words found seventeen drawing the wrong
colour. The pale-blue-interior-under-a-recoloured-outline fault, found in the
booleans, repeated in Cleanup, Filter by Area, Select by Condition and List
Length. The six Explode scenes hand back points and were drawing them in the
old highlight blue. The two selection scenes were still blue after the switch
to red. Area's measured hexagon is a region. Select Outer Edges now fills its
four cells and draws their shared edges as the regions they are. Separate by
Type carries all three type colours at once rather than one. Vector Math Cross
is the number colour, because Cross hands back a number.
Explode Polygon is a pentagon now. A four-sided box read as the Rectangle and
Square nodes. List Length numbers its boxes 1 to 5, positions rather than
indices, so the run ends on the same 5 the read-out states. The group box says
box rather than folder, in English and in all six locales. Two labels that sat
on the lines they labelled, the Radius read-out and the Through point, are
offset perpendicular to those lines.
The two Tidy layout images are regenerated from the documents they were always
built from. They were thought to have no generator; the generator takes its
output filename as an argument, so searching for the filename found nothing.
Page corrections from reviewing the node pages against the app: Math, Move,
Crossing Census and Stability Sweep were missing the editable marker their
app sockets carry, Move and Preview were missing their defaults, Preview had
no Outputs section where the absence of one is the point, and Weave called
Flip a boolean where every other page says on/off.
Docs: American spellings, Explode retirement, new nodes, prose pass
American spellings throughout. 346 replacements across the public text:
centre, colour, grey where it was not the noun, millimetre, behaviour,
organise and the rest. Gray keeps its E, which is how Blossom spells it.
No UI label in the app was ever British, so the wiki and the app agree.
Explode is now one node. node-explode.md is new and answers for every
shape, taking a group apart a layer at a time. The six per-type pages
stay reachable and each carries a retirement notice pointing at it;
documents built with them still open and still work.
Two new node pages, Compare and Select by Condition, both with an icon
pending note for Vera.
Export grouping documented in preferences, export-svg and export-dxf:
Group by Layers and Group by Outline Color, alongside hairline black.
Math gains Absolute Value. Tangent rewritten to the new behaviour:
options shown, nearest one chosen, click again for the other.
Select Parents and Select Children written into selection.md from
Theo's spec, with two rows in menu-select.md and dead icon references.
Not shipped yet. Both ADD to the selection rather than replacing it.
Node prose pass. Every node page now carries at least a short
explanation, on the principle that a reader landed there because the
interface did not explain itself. Command pages are getting the same
treatment, 14 of 34 so far.
First-pattern figures rebuilt. The Slider and Math wires crossed on the
way into Rotate, which made the Home page banner read as though Angle
and Repeat were swapped. They were not; the layout was wrong. Also
dropped a degree sign from the Angle socket label, which the app does
not have.
Bottom nav on every page, Apollonius, and the Combine menu completed
Navigation
- Every page's own Previous/Next line is now repeated at the bottom, directly
above the Related heading. Done by tools/add_bottom_nav.py, which finds that
heading BY NAME rather than by position, so the nav never lands in the middle
of a real section.
circles-arcs
- New Apollonius section with its own figure, apollonius-cases.png, built by a
new generator build_apollonius.mjs. Three worked cases: two lines and a
circle, three circles, two points and a line. One solution solid, the rest
light and dotted. Placed immediately before the Arc tool heading.
- circle-methods.png reverted: Apollonius gets a separate diagram, not a
fourth panel on the existing one.
selection
- Select Outer Edges removed. It is a node-side command and does not belong on
the modeling-view page. Added a Related link to the node page instead.
transform-tools
- Rewritten so the page only ever speaks of transforming POINTS. Locus does not
transform objects, it transforms the free root points an object is built
from, and everything standing on them re-solves and follows.
- New callout before the Transform menu heading: if root points are shared with
objects you do not want to move, run Edit > Detach first.
- Reference and handle clicks snap in all the same ways a point does.
align-distribute
- The same Detach callout added at the bottom, below the refusal paragraph.
regions-booleans
- Paint Region added to the list of ways to build a region.
menu-combine
- The Combine menu has eight commands and this page listed six. Paint Region
and Split (Bake) added, in menu order.
- Two new pages: combine-paint.md and combine-split.md. Split's page says
plainly that it is a one-shot bake, not a live boolean.
- The Previous/Next chain shifted, so combine-fill, combine-autoregion,
combine-difference and menu-transform changed their nav lines, and _Sidebar
gained both entries.
- Both icons rendered by the normal exporter from Vera's glyphs, tinted region
like the rest of the row.
Keyboard characters only: sweep all 245 English pages
Every character that cannot be typed on a US keyboard is replaced. Em dash
becomes a colon where it introduces a list bullet's description, matching how
the Italian pages already read, and a spaced hyphen everywhere else. The
Previous/Next angle quotes and the breadcrumb arrows become < and >, the menu
path triangle becomes >, arrows spell out as -> and <->, the ellipsis becomes
three periods, and the en dash and minus sign become a hyphen.
Two characters do two jobs and are split by context. The middle dot is a pipe
where it separates links and " x " where it is multiplication, as in Min + k x
Step and Radius x cos(Angle). The degree sign becomes " degrees" after a digit
and is dropped after a letter, where it was a stale reference to the Rotate
node's Angle socket, which no longer carries one.
Also: superscript two becomes 2, the square root sign becomes sqrt, the
division sign becomes /, less-than-or-equal becomes <=, and the decorative
emoji in Home, the footer, the sidebar, community and licensing are removed.
Kept: the command, shift and option key glyphs in the shortcut lines, and the
Greek letters used as math notation.
Verified: no file changed its line count, and no markdown table row changed its
cell count.
Docs: macOS+Windows support, and click-to-enlarge on diagram images
Combine tool pages: add Related section pointing to the node twin
Union, Intersect, Difference, and Region each note the same operation is available as a node.
Combine menu: 5 per-command tool pages nested under Combine; nav descends into them; refine Select-tool diagram