ISSUE-2271: Add mechanism for variable stroke width (as in calligraphy)

variable stroke width

Add mechanism for variable stroke width (as in calligraphy)

State:
RAISED
Product:
SVG 2
Raised by:
Doug Schepers
Opened on:
2009-05-16
Description:
SVG needs a way to allow the author to specify a variable stroke width, as in calligraphic strokes. The only way to do this currently is to create a new path (which is how Inkscape "fakes" this).

Here is a very primitive early proposal on how to this:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2002Apr/0047.html
http://www.schepers.cc/differentstrokes.html
http://svg-whiz.com/experiments.html#variableStrokeWidth

The solution should probably be more elegant and algorithmic, and should allow strokes to have different widths on either side of the central stroke line.

It should also interact well with CSS's border properties:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#border
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-border-radius

There is also a recent thread about this on SVG-Dev:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/60518

Bulia Byak, an Inkscape implementer, supports the idea of a variable stroke width:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2005Aug/0081.html
Related Actions Items:
Related emails:
  1. Minutes, May 20 2009 SVG WG telcon (from anthony.grasso@cisra.canon.com.au on 2009-05-20)
  2. Agenda, May 20 2009 SVG WG telcon (from ed@opera.com on 2009-05-19)
  3. ISSUE-2271 (variable stroke width): Add mechanism for variable stroke width (as in calligraphy) [SVG Core 2.0] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2009-05-16)

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