Compound paths, Closest Points and Normalize, with four new figures
Three new pages: Make and Release Compound Path, the Closest Points node
and the Normalize node. Four new figures, every position in them computed
from the geometry rather than placed by eye.
Also: the Pen keeps its spline after a shape closes, anchor and handle
selection rewritten with the band and the three Delete cases, Close
Spline reworded to sub-spline, splines and compound paths now reach both
exports, Inspect reads fill or hole from nesting, cluster sockets are
named after what feeds them, Graph Mapper remaps a list item for item,
and Vector Math says which Normalize it is. The Select by Boundary card
is re-rendered with Enclosed drawn on, which its spec had wrong.
Constraining with Shift: Previous now points at Correct Path Direction
Path menu: new page, four diagrams, eight edits
New page for the two right-click path menus, covering Cut Spline, Lock
and Unlock, Focus on Selected Paths, Connect Anchors and Make Anchor
First.
Splines: what each end of a spline tells you, and where the selection
color goes once an anchor is picked. Corrects the claim that anchors
appear only while a spline is open for editing.
Pen: the three badges beside the cursor, and the refusal to stack a
second anchor on one that is already there. Shift-insert takes the
nearest extreme or inflection, not only an extreme.
Selection: anchors across more than one spline, Tab and Shift-Tab,
Return, Shift-Delete.
Reverse Direction, Convert to Spline and Cut Spline each name their
right-click form alongside the palette form.
Splines: five new pages, fifteen edits, two diagrams
New: splines, draw-pen, edit-convert-to-spline, edit-cut-spline,
edit-close-spline. Sidebar and Previous/Next chains wired for all five.
Edits: selection gains anchor selection and the nudge multipliers;
transform-tools gains the bound-anchor refusal; transform-mirror says a
spline reflects as a copy; edit-reverse-direction says a spline turns its
anchors around; import and file-import-svg say an import is a path until
converted; layers-panel tells Pth from Spl; the Draw and Edit menu
listings gain the four commands.
Diagrams: the anchor and handle legend, and the four Pen gestures.
node-flatten now says why it exists, which is the weld; node-weld-seams
says its Across Groups default changed.
Also carries the node page work that was sitting uncommitted.
American spelling across the English pages
Twenty-four occurrences on eighteen pages: centre, honours, honoured,
millimetres, travelling, travelled, neighbours, flavour, flavours,
afterwards, backwards and coloured.
Three of them sat inside alt text, where reading the page never catches
them.
Two image filenames still read colour and are left that way deliberately.
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.
Beta 2 docs: Bounding Box, Auto Mirror, Auto Array, and what 0.3.0 changed
New pages for the Bounding Box node and the Auto Mirror / Auto Array
library clusters, with cards. The symmetry clusters no longer have a
Guides output and their Upright input is now Deskew: pages, cards (all
seven languages) and the generators updated. Existing pages catch up
with the rest of the release: weld seams in line work, Stroke W as a
field or list, per-shape SVG line weights, new-file framing and pencil,
guide nudging, snap lines finding crossings, multi-select Divide, image
References, Inspect keys and ghost colours, and a language change that
keeps the drawing.
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 sync: Split→Split (Bake), View Extents→Zoom to Fit, Point-tool Shift, perp/parallel stay-armed, Help ⌘?/right-click-tool
Nav: left-justified plain-text line below breadcrumb, all pages
Nav: right-aligned borderless (div align=right) below breadcrumb, all pages
Nav bar: breadcrumb left, prev/next hard right; straightedge-compass diagrams under headings
Nav right-justified on the breadcrumb line (all pages); straightedge-compass: section-then-diagram-then-text + add-to-system section
Add prev/next nav below breadcrumb on all sidebar pages; straightedge-compass: selection figures side-by-side + add-to-system section
Breadcrumb + section header on all pages; wallpaper-groups → intro + four lattice pages; remove Fundamental domains
Add breadcrumb nav to all content pages; split wallpaper-groups into intro + 4 lattice pages; remove Fundamental domains
Remove not-yet-implemented features from docs: Bézier curves, polygons, measuring
Publish documentation to the Wiki