Query re `arc'

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From: L. Peter Deutsch
Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 17:34

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The PostScript specification trivia question for today:

If you ask a PostScript engine to draw a zero-degree arc and there is
no current point, does the arc operator just do a moveto, or does it
do a moveto and then draw a zero-length line?  It makes a difference,
because if you've selected non-round caps and round joins, 'stroke'
will give no output if arc does the former, whereas the latter will
draw a dot.

Since this isn't culled out as a special case in the Red Book, I
suspect the latter is the correct interpretation, but it would be
nice to know for sure.

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Subject: Query re `arc'
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