Merge pull request #6631 from Hassan1305/docs-6340-rotation-direction

Commands: every angle and rotation param says which way it turns (#6340)

crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/pathtools/shape.rs

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Edit Parametric Shape",
             [],
             None,
-            "{id, kind?, center?, width?, height?, rotation?, count?, a?, b?, radius?} change a parametric shape's numbers (as addon.pathtools.shape.create takes them; a new kind takes its own defaults for the values not given), as one undo step; with none, or the same ones, nothing changes → {id, shape (its numbers now)}",
+            "{id, kind?, center?, width?, height?, rotation?: degrees clockwise (0: upright), count?, a?, b?, radius?} change a parametric shape's numbers (as addon.pathtools.shape.create takes them; a new kind takes its own defaults for the values not given), as one undo step; with none, or the same ones, nothing changes → {id, shape (its numbers now)}",
             has_doc,
             set
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/shapes.rs

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Rectangle",
             [],
             None,
-            "{x, y, width, height, radius?: pt, radii?: [tl,tr,br,bl], startAngle?, endAngle?, arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, rotation?: deg} → {id}",
+            "{x, y, width, height, radius?: pt, radii?: [tl,tr,br,bl], startAngle?, endAngle?: degrees (the part of the outline kept, clockwise from its first anchor, the top-left corner; each side an equal share of 360; default 0 and 360), arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, rotation?: deg clockwise about the centre (0: upright)} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             rectangle
         ),
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Ellipse",
             [],
             None,
-            "{x, y, width, height, startAngle?, endAngle?, arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, rotation?: deg} → {id}",
+            "{x, y, width, height, startAngle?, endAngle?: degrees (counter-clockwise from 3 o'clock, as object.setLiveShape's pieStart and pieEnd; default 0 and 360), arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, rotation?: deg clockwise about the centre (0: upright)} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             ellipse
         ),
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Polygon",
             [],
             None,
-            "{cx, cy, radius, sides=6, rounded=0, randomized=0, startAngle?, endAngle?, arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, rotation?: deg} → {id}",
+            "{cx, cy, radius, sides=6, rounded=0, randomized=0, startAngle?, endAngle?: degrees (the part of the outline kept, clockwise from its first anchor, the top corner; each side an equal share of 360; default 0 and 360), arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, rotation?: deg clockwise (0: a corner straight up)} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             polygon
         ),
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Star",
             [],
             None,
-            "{cx, cy, radius1, radius2?, points=5, rounded=0, randomized=0, startAngle?, endAngle?, arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, rotation?: deg} → {id}",
+            "{cx, cy, radius1, radius2?, points=5, rounded=0, randomized=0, startAngle?, endAngle?: degrees (the part of the outline kept, clockwise from its first anchor, the top point; each side an equal share of 360; default 0 and 360), arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, rotation?: deg clockwise (0: a point straight up)} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             star
         ),
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "3D Box",
             [],
             None,
-            "{x, y, width, height, angleX=30, angleY=30, angleZ=0, parallelX=false, parallelY=true, parallelZ=false} → {id}",
+            "{x, y, width, height, angleX=30 (degrees about the level axis: positive tips the top away from you), angleY=30 (degrees about the upright axis: positive turns the right side away from you), angleZ=0 (degrees clockwise in the page), parallelX=false, parallelY=true, parallelZ=false} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             box3d
         ),
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Configure Shape",
             [],
             None,
-            "{ids?, radius?, radii?: [tl,tr,br,bl], startAngle?, endAngle?, arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, sides?, isStar?, spokeRatio?, rounded?, randomized?, turns?, divergence?, innerRadius?, angleX?, angleY?, angleZ?, parallelX?, parallelY?, parallelZ?, reset?: bool} → {updated}",
+            "{ids?, radius?, radii?: [tl,tr,br,bl], startAngle?, endAngle?: degrees (as addon.shapes.rectangle, ellipse, polygon and star take them: an ellipse's counter-clockwise from 3 o'clock, the others' clockwise along the outline), arcMode?: whole|pie|chord|arc, sides?, isStar?, spokeRatio?, rounded?, randomized?, turns?, divergence?, innerRadius?, angleX?, angleY?: degrees (as addon.shapes.box3d: positive tips the top, or turns the right side, away from you), angleZ?: degrees clockwise in the page, parallelX?, parallelY?, parallelZ?, reset?: bool} → {updated}",
             has_selection,
             configure
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/brushsym.rs

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Brush Options…",
             [],
             None,
-            "{name, params?: {…fields to change (brush.get shows them; values outside their ranges are clamped). calligraphic: angle −180..180°, roundness 0..100%, size 0..1296 pt, variation: [angle°, roundness%, size pt], modes: [fixed|random|pressure|tilt|bearing|rotation for angle, roundness, size] (pressure goes from value − variation at the lightest pen pressure to value + variation at the heaviest; tilt from value − variation with the pen lying flat to value + variation with it upright; bearing and rotation add variation × the pen's bearing (which way it leans, counter-clockwise from leaning right) or its barrel's counter-clockwise rotation over 180°; the angle turns on past ±180°). scatter: size [a, b] 1..10000%, spacing [a, b] 1..10000%, scatter [a, b] −1000..1000%, rotation [a, b] −180..180°, modes: [fixed|random|pressure|tilt|bearing|rotation for size, spacing, scatter, rotation] (fixed: a; random: between a and b; pressure: a at the lightest pen pressure to b at the heaviest; tilt: a with the pen lying flat to b upright; bearing and rotation: a at −180° to b at 180°), rotation_relative_to_path. art: width 1..1000%, width_mode: null (fixed)|pressure, width_max 1..1000% (pressure: width at the lightest pen pressure to width_max at the heaviest, half way on a stroke drawn without pressure), scale: {mode: proportional|stretch|betweenGuides, start, end: 0..1 of the art length}, direction: leftToRight|rightToLeft|topToBottom|bottomToTop, flip_along, flip_across, overlap. pattern: scale 1..10000%, spacing 0..10000%, fit: stretch|addSpace|approximate, flip_along, flip_across, outer_corner and inner_corner: corner tile art (drawn as the corner that joins a side tile on its right to one below it) or null, outer_source and inner_source: what that kind of corner draws without its art: none|autoCentered|autoBetween|autoSliced|autoOverlap (a tile made from the side tile), or null (the other kind of corner's art); side_tile, outer_corner_tile, inner_corner_tile, start_tile, end_tile: a document pattern name, original, or none (side refuses none); corner tiles also take autoCentered|autoBetween|autoSliced|autoOverlap. Each tile also accepts {pattern: name} to select a swatch whose name is a reserved choice. scatter, art and pattern: colorization: {method: none|tints|tintsAndShades|hueShift, key: colour (hueShift: the art colour that becomes the stroke colour; without a key: the solid color the art's fills and strokes use most, black when they use none)}; colorization and the art brush's scale change only the fields given}, newName? (trimmed; blank: the name is kept; a new bristle brush name has at most 31 characters, and a longer name the brush has is kept)} edit a brush definition (strokes using it update) → {name}",
+            "{name, params?: {…fields to change (brush.get shows them; values outside their ranges are clamped). calligraphic: angle −180..180° (counter-clockwise from level), roundness 0..100%, size 0..1296 pt, variation: [angle°, roundness%, size pt], modes: [fixed|random|pressure|tilt|bearing|rotation for angle, roundness, size] (pressure goes from value − variation at the lightest pen pressure to value + variation at the heaviest; tilt from value − variation with the pen lying flat to value + variation with it upright; bearing and rotation add variation × the pen's bearing (which way it leans, counter-clockwise from leaning right) or its barrel's counter-clockwise rotation over 180°; the angle turns on past ±180°). scatter: size [a, b] 1..10000%, spacing [a, b] 1..10000%, scatter [a, b] −1000..1000%, rotation [a, b] −180..180° (counter-clockwise), modes: [fixed|random|pressure|tilt|bearing|rotation for size, spacing, scatter, rotation] (fixed: a; random: between a and b; pressure: a at the lightest pen pressure to b at the heaviest; tilt: a with the pen lying flat to b upright; bearing and rotation: a at −180° to b at 180°), rotation_relative_to_path. art: width 1..1000%, width_mode: null (fixed)|pressure, width_max 1..1000% (pressure: width at the lightest pen pressure to width_max at the heaviest, half way on a stroke drawn without pressure), scale: {mode: proportional|stretch|betweenGuides, start, end: 0..1 of the art length}, direction: leftToRight|rightToLeft|topToBottom|bottomToTop, flip_along, flip_across, overlap. pattern: scale 1..10000%, spacing 0..10000%, fit: stretch|addSpace|approximate, flip_along, flip_across, outer_corner and inner_corner: corner tile art (drawn as the corner that joins a side tile on its right to one below it) or null, outer_source and inner_source: what that kind of corner draws without its art: none|autoCentered|autoBetween|autoSliced|autoOverlap (a tile made from the side tile), or null (the other kind of corner's art); side_tile, outer_corner_tile, inner_corner_tile, start_tile, end_tile: a document pattern name, original, or none (side refuses none); corner tiles also take autoCentered|autoBetween|autoSliced|autoOverlap. Each tile also accepts {pattern: name} to select a swatch whose name is a reserved choice. scatter, art and pattern: colorization: {method: none|tints|tintsAndShades|hueShift, key: colour (hueShift: the art colour that becomes the stroke colour; without a key: the solid color the art's fills and strokes use most, black when they use none)}; colorization and the art brush's scale change only the fields given}, newName? (trimmed; blank: the name is kept; a new bristle brush name has at most 31 characters, and a longer name the brush has is kept)} edit a brush definition (strokes using it update) → {name}",
             has_doc,
             brush_options
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/create.rs

@@ -17,19 +17,43 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Rectangle",
             [],
             None,
-            "{x, y, width, height, radius?: pt, rotation?: deg (about centre)} → {id}",
+            "{x, y, width, height, radius?: pt, rotation?: deg clockwise about the centre (0: upright)} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             rectangle
         ),
-        cmd!("shape.ellipse", "Ellipse", [], None, "{x, y, width, height, rotation?: deg (about centre)} → {id}", has_doc, ellipse),
-        cmd!("shape.polygon", "Polygon", [], None, "{cx, cy, radius, sides=6, rotation?: deg} → {id}", has_doc, polygon),
-        cmd!("shape.star", "Star", [], None, "{cx, cy, radius1, radius2, points=5, rotation?: deg} → {id}", has_doc, star),
+        cmd!(
+            "shape.ellipse",
+            "Ellipse",
+            [],
+            None,
+            "{x, y, width, height, rotation?: deg clockwise about the centre (0: upright)} → {id}",
+            has_doc,
+            ellipse
+        ),
+        cmd!(
+            "shape.polygon",
+            "Polygon",
+            [],
+            None,
+            "{cx, cy, radius, sides=6, rotation?: deg clockwise (0: a corner straight up)} → {id}",
+            has_doc,
+            polygon
+        ),
+        cmd!(
+            "shape.star",
+            "Star",
+            [],
+            None,
+            "{cx, cy, radius1, radius2, points=5, rotation?: deg clockwise (0: a point straight up)} → {id}",
+            has_doc,
+            star
+        ),
         cmd!(
             "shape.flare",
             "Flare",
             [],
             None,
-            "{cx, cy, diameter=100, opacity=50 (%), brightness=30 (%), growth=20 (%), fuzziness=50 (%), rays=15, longest=300 (%), rayFuzziness=100 (%), rotation=0 (deg, turns the rays clockwise), x2?, y2? (ring end; else pathLength at direction), pathLength=300, rings=10, largest=50 (%), direction=45 (deg), seed?} → {id}",
+            "{cx, cy, diameter=100, opacity=50 (%), brightness=30 (%), growth=20 (%), fuzziness=50 (%), rays=15, longest=300 (%), rayFuzziness=100 (%), rotation=0 (deg, turns the rays clockwise), x2?, y2? (ring end; else pathLength at direction), pathLength=300, rings=10, largest=50 (%), direction=45 (deg counter-clockwise from 3 o'clock: where the rings run from the centre), seed?} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             flare
         ),
@@ -49,7 +73,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Rectangular Grid",
             [],
             None,
-            "{x, y, width, height, rows=5, columns=5, rowSkew=0, columnSkew=0 (−500…500 %: + crowds the horizontal dividers toward the top, the vertical ones toward the right), frame=true (the outside as one rectangle, else its four sides), fill=false (the current fill, else none), rotation?: deg (about centre)} → {id}",
+            "{x, y, width, height, rows=5, columns=5, rowSkew=0, columnSkew=0 (−500…500 %: + crowds the horizontal dividers toward the top, the vertical ones toward the right), frame=true (the outside as one rectangle, else its four sides), fill=false (the current fill, else none), rotation?: deg clockwise about the centre (0: upright)} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             rect_grid
         ),
@@ -58,7 +82,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Polar Grid",
             [],
             None,
-            "{x, y, width, height, concentric=5, radial=5, concentricSkew=0, radialSkew=0 (−500…500 %: + crowds the ellipses toward the outside, the radial dividers clockwise of the top one), compound=false (the ellipses pair up into compound-path rings), fill=false (the current fill, else none), rotation?: deg (about centre)} → {id}",
+            "{x, y, width, height, concentric=5, radial=5, concentricSkew=0, radialSkew=0 (−500…500 %: + crowds the ellipses toward the outside, the radial dividers clockwise of the top one), compound=false (the ellipses pair up into compound-path rings), fill=false (the current fill, else none), rotation?: deg clockwise about the centre (0: upright)} → {id}",
             has_doc,
             polar_grid
         ),
@@ -85,7 +109,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Create Text",
             [],
             None,
-            "{x, y, text, rotation?: deg (about x, y), vertical?: bool = false, size?: pt, font?: family, style? (default Regular, or the family's closest style when it has no Regular), color? (#rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused), keepModel?: bool (as paint.setFill), area?: {width, height, fit?: none|autoHeight|shrinkText, fitMinPercent?}, placeholder?: bool (fill it with placeholder text instead, as the Type tools do with prefs placeholderText), justify?: \"auto\" (default: the start of each paragraph's direction)|\"left\"|\"center\"|\"right\"|\"justifyAll\" (point type: aligned on x, so \"center\" centres each line on the point and \"right\" ends it there; text.setStyle changes it later), leadingModel?: \"romanBaseline\"|\"emBoxTop\", charAlign?: \"romanBaseline\"|\"emBoxTop\"|\"emBoxCenter\"|\"emBoxBottom\"|\"icfTop\"|\"icfBottom\" (default: emBoxTop and emBoxCenter while the interface is in Japanese, else romanBaseline)} → {id, bounds: {x, y, width, height} (the new type's box as document.inspect reports it, after justify), overflow?: [id] (area type whose text doesn't fit its frame: the lines past it aren't drawn; left out when it fits), warning?: text (the font or style given isn't available: the type is drawn in the fallback font or the family's closest style)}; new area type gets Auto Size (fit autoHeight) when the autoSizeAreaType preference is on",
+            "{x, y, text, rotation?: deg clockwise about x, y (0: level), vertical?: bool = false, size?: pt, font?: family, style? (default Regular, or the family's closest style when it has no Regular), color? (#rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused), keepModel?: bool (as paint.setFill), area?: {width, height, fit?: none|autoHeight|shrinkText, fitMinPercent?}, placeholder?: bool (fill it with placeholder text instead, as the Type tools do with prefs placeholderText), justify?: \"auto\" (default: the start of each paragraph's direction)|\"left\"|\"center\"|\"right\"|\"justifyAll\" (point type: aligned on x, so \"center\" centres each line on the point and \"right\" ends it there; text.setStyle changes it later), leadingModel?: \"romanBaseline\"|\"emBoxTop\", charAlign?: \"romanBaseline\"|\"emBoxTop\"|\"emBoxCenter\"|\"emBoxBottom\"|\"icfTop\"|\"icfBottom\" (default: emBoxTop and emBoxCenter while the interface is in Japanese, else romanBaseline)} → {id, bounds: {x, y, width, height} (the new type's box as document.inspect reports it, after justify), overflow?: [id] (area type whose text doesn't fit its frame: the lines past it aren't drawn; left out when it fits), warning?: text (the font or style given isn't available: the type is drawn in the fallback font or the family's closest style)}; new area type gets Auto Size (fit autoHeight) when the autoSizeAreaType preference is on",
             has_doc,
             text_create
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/distortcmds.rs

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Liquify",
             [],
             None,
-            "{tool: warp|twirl|pucker|bloat|scallop|crystallize|wrinkle, points: [[x,y,pressure?]…] (the brush stroke; pen pressure 0..1, default 1), diameter?|width?, height? (pt, default 100), angle?, intensity? (0..1 or %), usePressure?: bool (each point's pressure is the intensity there), detail? (1..10), simplify?: 0..100, simplifyOn?: bool (default true; both for warp, twirl, pucker, bloat), rate? (twirl °), complexity? (0..15), horizontal?, vertical? (wrinkle, 0..1 or %), affectAnchors?, affectIn?, affectOut?: bool (scallop, crystallize, wrinkle; default true), ids?|id? (default: selection, else every path the brush touches)}",
+            "{tool: warp|twirl|pucker|bloat|scallop|crystallize|wrinkle, points: [[x,y,pressure?]…] (the brush stroke; pen pressure 0..1, default 1), diameter?|width?, height? (pt, default 100), angle? (deg clockwise: the brush's width axis from level), intensity? (0..1 or %), usePressure?: bool (each point's pressure is the intensity there), detail? (1..10), simplify?: 0..100, simplifyOn?: bool (default true; both for warp, twirl, pucker, bloat), rate? (twirl °, positive turns clockwise), complexity? (0..15), horizontal?, vertical? (wrinkle, 0..1 or %), affectAnchors?, affectIn?, affectOut?: bool (scallop, crystallize, wrinkle; default true), ids?|id? (default: selection, else every path the brush touches)}",
             has_doc,
             liquify
         ),
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Puppet Warp",
             [],
             None,
-            "{id?|ids? (default: selection), pins: [[x,y]…] (current pin positions), moved: [[x,y]…] (targets, same length), angles?: [deg|null…] (same length: the turn the art takes around each pin, as Alt-dragging around a pin does; null leaves it free), expand?: pt, rest?: bool, auto?: bool (as object.puppetWarp.pins reports; ignored)} as-rigid-as-possible mesh warp of anchors and handles. rest: true = the Puppet Warp tool's pins: `pins` are points on the shape the pins started from (object.puppetWarp.pins), each must be on its mesh, the warp replaces the previous one instead of adding to it, and the pins are kept with the document for Undo (an empty list removes them all, leaving the art as it is)",
+            "{id?|ids? (default: selection), pins: [[x,y]…] (current pin positions), moved: [[x,y]…] (targets, same length), angles?: [deg|null…] (same length: the turn the art takes around each pin, clockwise, as Alt-dragging around a pin does; null leaves it free), expand?: pt, rest?: bool, auto?: bool (as object.puppetWarp.pins reports; ignored)} as-rigid-as-possible mesh warp of anchors and handles. rest: true = the Puppet Warp tool's pins: `pins` are points on the shape the pins started from (object.puppetWarp.pins), each must be on its mesh, the warp replaces the previous one instead of adding to it, and the pins are kept with the document for Undo (an empty list removes them all, leaving the art as it is)",
             has_doc,
             puppet_warp
         ),
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Puppet Warp Pins",
             [],
             None,
-            "{id?|ids? (default: selection), expand?: pt} → {ids, pins, moved, angles, expand, rest: true, auto} the Puppet Warp pins on the art: pins = where each sits on the shape they started from, moved = where it is now, angles = the turn it holds (deg, null = free); auto: none placed yet (the tool's automatic pins: the centre and the end of each limb). Change moved/angles (or add/remove pins) and pass it back to object.puppetWarp",
+            "{id?|ids? (default: selection), expand?: pt} → {ids, pins, moved, angles, expand, rest: true, auto} the Puppet Warp pins on the art: pins = where each sits on the shape they started from, moved = where it is now, angles = the turn it holds (deg clockwise, null = free); auto: none placed yet (the tool's automatic pins: the centre and the end of each limb). Change moved/angles (or add/remove pins) and pass it back to object.puppetWarp",
             has_doc,
             puppet_pins
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/draw2/commands.rs

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Eraser",
             [],
             None,
-            "{points: [[x,y]…] or [[x,y,pressure]…] (pen pressure 0..1), size?: pt (10), sizeMode?: \"fixed\" (default) | \"pressure\" (Eraser Tool Options' Size set to Pressure: the tip is size − sizeVariation across where the pen presses lightest and size + sizeVariation where it presses hardest, as path.blob), sizeVariation?: pt (0), angle?: ° (0), roundness?: % (100, kept within 1–100)} erase the stroke of an elliptical tip from paths (selected, or all) → {ids}. The tip is `size` across its long axis, which runs at `angle` counter-clockwise from horizontal; its short axis is `roundness` percent of the long one",
+            "{points: [[x,y]…] or [[x,y,pressure]…] (pen pressure 0..1), size?: pt (10), sizeMode?: \"fixed\" (default) | \"pressure\" (Eraser Tool Options' Size set to Pressure: the tip is size − sizeVariation across where the pen presses lightest and size + sizeVariation where it presses hardest, as path.blob), sizeVariation?: pt (0), angle?: ° (0: the tip's long axis counter-clockwise from level), roundness?: % (100, kept within 1–100)} erase the stroke of an elliptical tip from paths (selected, or all) → {ids}. The tip is `size` across its long axis, which runs at `angle` counter-clockwise from horizontal; its short axis is `roundness` percent of the long one",
             has_doc,
             erase_region
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/gradient.rs

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Gradient",
             ["Window", "Gradient"],
             None,
-            "{stroke?: bool (default: the targeted item's kind, else the active proxy), kind?: linear|radial|freeform (freeform places points on each object, coloured along the stops), mode?: points|lines (freeform: how the Gradient tool adds points), method?: classic|perceptual (how the colours between the stops mix: in display RGB, or perceptually (OKLab) so the steps look even; SVG exports draw a Perceptual gradient as an image, and PDF exports do too unless it is linear or radial, has spot color stops, every other stop is paper white or written in CMYK or gray (an export that converts colors to a CMYK destination profile writes RGB and Lab stops in CMYK, and so does a CMYK document unless the export converts colors to an RGB destination profile), it is not a dithered fill and its curve does not have too many stops: then PDF writes tints of one spot ink as a Separation shading in that ink, and spot inks mixed with other spot, CMYK or gray inks as a DeviceN shading; freeform gradients mix their own way), stops?: [{offset 0..1, color? (needed without swatch; #rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused), opacity? 0..1 (or 0..100), midpoint? 0.13..0.87, swatch?: colour swatch name (a global or spot colour or tint swatch links the stop, so swatch edits recolour it and a spot stop prints on its plate; a process colour just gives its colour), tint?: 0..100 (% of the linked swatch; default 100, or a tint swatch's own)}] (at least 2; a freeform gradient's points are recoloured along them), keepModel?: bool (as paint.setFill; a stop color the gradient already has keeps its model), angle?: deg, aspect?: %, reverse?: bool, dither?: bool (fills only: a linear or radial gradient fill is drawn with fine noise that hides banding, and as pixels in SVG and PDF exports), item?: fill/stroke item index|null (omitted: the Appearance panel's active item when it is of the edited kind), ids?|id?, strokeMode?: within|along|across (strokes only: the gradient lies on the page and shows through the stroke, runs from the start of each subpath to its end, or runs from the stroke's left edge to its right all along it; with nothing selected, for the next object drawn; type characters' own strokes always paint within), target?: \"object\"|\"contents\"} edit the gradient in place (keeps its placement); solid/none paints become the default gradient",
+            "{stroke?: bool (default: the targeted item's kind, else the active proxy), kind?: linear|radial|freeform (freeform places points on each object, coloured along the stops), mode?: points|lines (freeform: how the Gradient tool adds points), method?: classic|perceptual (how the colours between the stops mix: in display RGB, or perceptually (OKLab) so the steps look even; SVG exports draw a Perceptual gradient as an image, and PDF exports do too unless it is linear or radial, has spot color stops, every other stop is paper white or written in CMYK or gray (an export that converts colors to a CMYK destination profile writes RGB and Lab stops in CMYK, and so does a CMYK document unless the export converts colors to an RGB destination profile), it is not a dithered fill and its curve does not have too many stops: then PDF writes tints of one spot ink as a Separation shading in that ink, and spot inks mixed with other spot, CMYK or gray inks as a DeviceN shading; freeform gradients mix their own way), stops?: [{offset 0..1, color? (needed without swatch; #rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused), opacity? 0..1 (or 0..100), midpoint? 0.13..0.87, swatch?: colour swatch name (a global or spot colour or tint swatch links the stop, so swatch edits recolour it and a spot stop prints on its plate; a process colour just gives its colour), tint?: 0..100 (% of the linked swatch; default 100, or a tint swatch's own)}] (at least 2; a freeform gradient's points are recoloured along them), keepModel?: bool (as paint.setFill; a stop color the gradient already has keeps its model), angle?: deg counter-clockwise (0: the gradient runs left to right), aspect?: %, reverse?: bool, dither?: bool (fills only: a linear or radial gradient fill is drawn with fine noise that hides banding, and as pixels in SVG and PDF exports), item?: fill/stroke item index|null (omitted: the Appearance panel's active item when it is of the edited kind), ids?|id?, strokeMode?: within|along|across (strokes only: the gradient lies on the page and shows through the stroke, runs from the start of each subpath to its end, or runs from the stroke's left edge to its right all along it; with nothing selected, for the next object drawn; type characters' own strokes always paint within), target?: \"object\"|\"contents\"} edit the gradient in place (keeps its placement); solid/none paints become the default gradient",
             has_doc,
             edit_gradient
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/halftone.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
         "Vector Halftone…",
         ["Object"],
         None,
-        "{shape?: \"circle\"|\"ellipse\"|\"square\"|\"diamond\"|\"line\" (circle), frequency?: lines per inch 1–300 (20), angle?: deg (45; CMYK: the black screen's, cyan −30°, magenta +30°, yellow −45° from it), mode?: \"mono\"|\"cmyk\" (mono), color?: mono dot colour (\"#000000\"; #rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused), invert?: bool (dots for light tones), clip?: true (clip the dots to the art's outline), keepOriginal?: false} the selection as vector halftone dots sized by its tone, a group of one path per screen (CMYK screens multiply), as one undo step → {id, dots, warning? (an image in the art couldn't be decoded, as object.rasterize says)}",
+        "{shape?: \"circle\"|\"ellipse\"|\"square\"|\"diamond\"|\"line\" (circle), frequency?: lines per inch 1–300 (20), angle?: deg clockwise (45; 0: level rows of dots; CMYK: the black screen's, cyan −30°, magenta +30°, yellow −45° from it), mode?: \"mono\"|\"cmyk\" (mono), color?: mono dot colour (\"#000000\"; #rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused), invert?: bool (dots for light tones), clip?: true (clip the dots to the art's outline), keepOriginal?: false} the selection as vector halftone dots sized by its tone, a group of one path per screen (CMYK screens multiply), as one undo step → {id, dots, warning? (an image in the art couldn't be decoded, as object.rasterize says)}",
         has_selection,
         halftone
     )]

crates/engine/src/cmd/object/commands.rs

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Shear…",
             ["Object", "Transform"],
             None,
-            "{ids?: [id…] (selected first; default: the selection), angle: deg, axis?: \"horizontal\"|\"vertical\", origin?, copy?, objects?: bool (Transform Objects, default true; false: the art stays and, with patterns, only its pattern tiles transform), patterns?: bool (Transform Patterns: pattern fills and strokes transform with the art; default: prefs transformPatternTiles), typeAreas?: bool (area type: the frame is reshaped and the text reflows at its size)}. With anchors selected with Direct Selection (and no copy), only those anchors and their handles transform, about the centre of their own box.",
+            "{ids?: [id…] (selected first; default: the selection), angle: deg (positive turns the vertical edges clockwise with the horizontal axis, the top to the right; the horizontal edges clockwise with the vertical axis, the right side down), axis?: \"horizontal\"|\"vertical\", origin?, copy?, objects?: bool (Transform Objects, default true; false: the art stays and, with patterns, only its pattern tiles transform), patterns?: bool (Transform Patterns: pattern fills and strokes transform with the art; default: prefs transformPatternTiles), typeAreas?: bool (area type: the frame is reshaped and the text reflows at its size)}. With anchors selected with Direct Selection (and no copy), only those anchors and their handles transform, about the centre of their own box.",
             has_selection,
             shear
         ),
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Live Shape Properties",
             [],
             None,
-            "{id?, ids?, radius?: pt (or % of each corner's maximum when `relativeRadii` is true), kind?: \"round\"|\"invertedRound\"|\"chamfer\", relativeRadii?: bool (Relative rounding, as in the reference app: store radii as fractions of each corner's maximum so they scale with the shape), corners?: [i…], items?: [{id, corners?: [i…]}] (several objects, each with its own corners, in place of ids and corners: the canvas's corner widgets across a selection), sides?: n, polygonAngle?: degrees (counterclockwise from its first vertex straight up), polygonRadius?: pt (centre to vertex), sideLength?: pt (sets the radius), makeSidesEqual?: true (a polygon scaled unevenly: drops the uneven scale and shear, keeping its centre, angle and mean radius), pieStart?, pieEnd?: degrees (an ellipse's pie, counterclockwise from 3 o'clock; 0 to 360 is the whole ellipse), invertPie?: true (swaps them: the other part of the ellipse)} (Live Corners on any path: radius and kind set its corners (anchors that aren't smooth, where two sides, straight or curved (#1144), meet at an angle): `corners` (anchor indices of the path with its corners uncut, counting every subpath's anchors in order: a rectangle's 0 top-left, 1 top-right, 2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left; a polygon's from the first vertex clockwise), else the corners with a Direct-Selected anchor, else every corner; each radius is drawn no larger than half the corner's shorter side allows; a path that isn't a live shape keeps its uncut outline so its corners stay editable, and is plain again once none is cut; sides: a polygon's, which keep the radius they shared; the polygon params apply in that order: sides, makeSidesEqual, polygonAngle, then sideLength or else polygonRadius)",
+            "{id?, ids?, radius?: pt (or % of each corner's maximum when `relativeRadii` is true), kind?: \"round\"|\"invertedRound\"|\"chamfer\", relativeRadii?: bool (Relative rounding, as in the reference app: store radii as fractions of each corner's maximum so they scale with the shape), corners?: [i…], items?: [{id, corners?: [i…]}] (several objects, each with its own corners, in place of ids and corners: the canvas's corner widgets across a selection), sides?: n, polygonAngle?: degrees (counter-clockwise from its first vertex straight up), polygonRadius?: pt (centre to vertex), sideLength?: pt (sets the radius), makeSidesEqual?: true (a polygon scaled unevenly: drops the uneven scale and shear, keeping its centre, angle and mean radius), pieStart?, pieEnd?: degrees (an ellipse's pie, counter-clockwise from 3 o'clock; 0 to 360 is the whole ellipse), invertPie?: true (swaps them: the other part of the ellipse)} (Live Corners on any path: radius and kind set its corners (anchors that aren't smooth, where two sides, straight or curved (#1144), meet at an angle): `corners` (anchor indices of the path with its corners uncut, counting every subpath's anchors in order: a rectangle's 0 top-left, 1 top-right, 2 bottom-right, 3 bottom-left; a polygon's from the first vertex clockwise), else the corners with a Direct-Selected anchor, else every corner; each radius is drawn no larger than half the corner's shorter side allows; a path that isn't a live shape keeps its uncut outline so its corners stay editable, and is plain again once none is cut; sides: a polygon's, which keep the radius they shared; the polygon params apply in that order: sides, makeSidesEqual, polygonAngle, then sideLength or else polygonRadius)",
             has_selection,
             set_live_shape
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/paint.rs

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Fill",
             [],
             None,
-            "{color?: \"#rrggbb\"|[r,g,b]|{c,m,y,k}|{gray}|{l,a,b} (CIE Lab; #rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused), none?: true, swatch?: name (a global or spot colour stays linked, so swatch edits recolour it; a tint swatch links to its base at its tint; a gradient swatch is recorded as the gradient's swatch and fits each object, keeping its aspect; the built-in \"[Registration]\" prints on every plate), tint?: 0..100 (% of a global or spot `swatch`; default 100, or a tint swatch's own), gradient?: {kind?: linear|radial|freeform, method?: classic|perceptual (as paint.editGradient; default classic), stops?: [{offset 0..1, color, opacity? 0..1 (or 0..100), midpoint? 0.13..0.87, swatch?: global or spot colour (or tint) swatch the stop links to (its colour comes from the swatch), tint?: 0..100}] (at least 2; default white→black), angle?: deg, start?: [x,y], end?: [x,y] (the vector in document coordinates, both or neither; type objects keep it in text space), aspect?: % (radial; without start/end the gradient is placed on each object's bounds), focal?: [x,y] (radial, with start/end: the focal point, where the first stop sits), dither?: bool (linear and radial fills: drawn with fine noise that hides banding, and as pixels in SVG and PDF exports; strokes ignore it), swatch?: linked gradient swatch name}, item?: appearance item index|null (omitted: the Appearance panel's active item if it is a fill, else the top fill), ids?|id?, focus?: true (false keeps the active proxy), keepModel?: false (in a CMYK document, RGB colours and gradient stops are stored as CMYK unless true; Gray stays Gray), target?: \"object\"|\"contents\", span?: \"object\" (default: each target fits a gradient to its own bounds)|\"selection\" (a linear or radial `gradient` without start/end is placed once on the union of the targets' bounds, so it runs across them)} sets the selection's fill and the default (new art fits a gradient to itself); a solid colour recolours only the gradient mesh point last clicked with the Mesh tool or Direct Selection; while the Type tool has characters selected (and no ids or item are given), the paint goes to those characters only; without `item`, a grayscale or 1-bit image takes a solid color as the color it is drawn in (white pixels transparent; `none` takes it off; an image with an alpha channel takes only a spot color, black or white); with an object of a dynamic symbol instance selected by Direct Selection and no ids, id or item, that object's fill changes for this instance only (solid, none, gradient or pattern) → {objects: how many objects took the paint (the objects inside a group, unless an appearance item of the group's own is targeted; 0 when only the default changed)}",
+            "{color?: \"#rrggbb\"|[r,g,b]|{c,m,y,k}|{gray}|{l,a,b} (CIE Lab; #rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused), none?: true, swatch?: name (a global or spot colour stays linked, so swatch edits recolour it; a tint swatch links to its base at its tint; a gradient swatch is recorded as the gradient's swatch and fits each object, keeping its aspect; the built-in \"[Registration]\" prints on every plate), tint?: 0..100 (% of a global or spot `swatch`; default 100, or a tint swatch's own), gradient?: {kind?: linear|radial|freeform, method?: classic|perceptual (as paint.editGradient; default classic), stops?: [{offset 0..1, color, opacity? 0..1 (or 0..100), midpoint? 0.13..0.87, swatch?: global or spot colour (or tint) swatch the stop links to (its colour comes from the swatch), tint?: 0..100}] (at least 2; default white→black), angle?: deg counter-clockwise (0: the gradient runs left to right), start?: [x,y], end?: [x,y] (the vector in document coordinates, both or neither; type objects keep it in text space), aspect?: % (radial; without start/end the gradient is placed on each object's bounds), focal?: [x,y] (radial, with start/end: the focal point, where the first stop sits), dither?: bool (linear and radial fills: drawn with fine noise that hides banding, and as pixels in SVG and PDF exports; strokes ignore it), swatch?: linked gradient swatch name}, item?: appearance item index|null (omitted: the Appearance panel's active item if it is a fill, else the top fill), ids?|id?, focus?: true (false keeps the active proxy), keepModel?: false (in a CMYK document, RGB colours and gradient stops are stored as CMYK unless true; Gray stays Gray), target?: \"object\"|\"contents\", span?: \"object\" (default: each target fits a gradient to its own bounds)|\"selection\" (a linear or radial `gradient` without start/end is placed once on the union of the targets' bounds, so it runs across them)} sets the selection's fill and the default (new art fits a gradient to itself); a solid colour recolours only the gradient mesh point last clicked with the Mesh tool or Direct Selection; while the Type tool has characters selected (and no ids or item are given), the paint goes to those characters only; without `item`, a grayscale or 1-bit image takes a solid color as the color it is drawn in (white pixels transparent; `none` takes it off; an image with an alpha channel takes only a spot color, black or white); with an object of a dynamic symbol instance selected by Direct Selection and no ids, id or item, that object's fill changes for this instance only (solid, none, gradient or pattern) → {objects: how many objects took the paint (the objects inside a group, unless an appearance item of the group's own is targeted; 0 when only the default changed)}",
             has_doc,
             |s, p| set_paint(s, p, true)
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/params.rs

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ pub struct ParamKeys<'a> {
 
 /// The text between the braces of the object `doc` starts with and what follows it, or why it
 /// has none.
-fn object_body(doc: &str) -> std::result::Result<(&str, &str), String> {
+pub(crate) fn object_body(doc: &str) -> std::result::Result<(&str, &str), String> {
     // (Named, not written in the `Err`: these are for the tests of the descriptions, not messages
     // the app shows, which the message catalogs would have to translate.)
     let (no_object, not_closed) = ("the description doesn't start with the params object `{…}`", "the params object `{…}` isn't closed");
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ fn object_body(doc: &str) -> std::result::Result<(&str, &str), String> {
 }
 
 /// `s` split at each `sep` that is outside brackets, quotes and backticks.
-fn split_top(s: &str, sep: char) -> Vec<&str> {
+pub(crate) fn split_top(s: &str, sep: char) -> Vec<&str> {
     let (mut out, mut depth, mut quote, mut start) = (Vec::new(), 0usize, None, 0);
     for (i, c) in s.char_indices() {
         match (quote, c) {
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ fn split_top(s: &str, sep: char) -> Vec<&str> {
     out
 }
 
-fn is_key(s: &str) -> bool {
+pub(crate) fn is_key(s: &str) -> bool {
     let mut chars = s.chars();
     chars.next().is_some_and(|c| c.is_ascii_alphabetic() || c == '_') && chars.all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || c == '_')
 }

crates/engine/src/cmd/patterncmds.rs

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Mirror",
             ["Object", "Repeat"],
             None,
-            "{ids?, angle?: deg (90 = vertical axis), offset?: pt (10)} mirror repeat of the selection → {id}",
+            "{ids?, angle?: deg clockwise from level (the mirror axis; 90 = vertical), offset?: pt (10)} mirror repeat of the selection → {id}",
             has_selection,
             repeat_mirror
         ),
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Options…",
             ["Object", "Repeat"],
             None,
-            "{instances?, radius?, reverseOverlap?, startAngle?, endAngle?, center?: [x,y] | hSpacing?, vSpacing?, rows?, cols?, gridType?, brickOffset?, flipRows?, flipCols? | angle?} set the options of the selected repeats",
+            "{instances?, radius?, reverseOverlap?, startAngle?, endAngle?: deg clockwise (0: where the source art sits), center?: [x,y] | hSpacing?, vSpacing?, rows?, cols?, gridType?, brickOffset?, flipRows?, flipCols? | angle?: deg clockwise from level (the mirror axis; 90 = vertical)} set the options of the selected repeats",
             has_repeat,
             repeat_options
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/print.rs

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Print Setup",
             [],
             None,
-            "{preset?: name ([Default] or a saved print preset, any case: print.presets.list; its settings replace the document's, as choosing it in the Print dialog does), settings?: {copies: 1 (1–999), collate: true, reverse, artboards: all|range|ignore (all the art as one page), range: \"1-3, 5\" (1-based, with artboards: range), skipBlank (leave out artboards with no art that prints), media: letter|legal|tabloid|a3|a4|a5|a6|b4|b5|b4 (jis)|b5 (jis)|b6 (jis)|japanese postcard|japanese double postcard|japanese envelope #3|japanese envelope #4|kaku #2|kaku #3|yonroku-ban|custom (a paper is named by its id or its dialog label, any case and spacing, so `B5 (JIS)` works; b4 and b5 stay the ISO 216 sizes, 250 × 353 and 176 × 250 mm, and the JIS sizes are b4 (jis) 257 × 364 mm, b5 (jis) 182 × 257 mm and b6 (jis) 128 × 182 mm), width, height (custom paper, 72–14400 pt), orientation: portrait|landscape|portraitFlipped|landscapeFlipped, autoRotate: true (turn the paper to each artboard; orientation ignored), transverse (the page a quarter turn on the paper), printLayers: visiblePrintable|visible|all (template layers never print), placement: {origin: topLeft|top|topRight|left|center|right|bottomLeft|bottom|bottomRight (the point of the printed area, the artboard with its bleed and marks, on the same point of the imageable area), x, y (pt, right and down)}, scaling: none|fit|custom|tileFull|tileImageable, scale: {width: 100, height: 100} (% with custom and tiling), overlap: 0 (pt between tiles), tileRange: \"\" (1-based tiles across then down; empty: all), copiesPerSheet: false (not with tiling: as many copies of each artboard, with its bleed and marks, as fit the imageable area, across then down, not turned; the placement places the grid; an artboard that doesn't fit prints one copy per sheet, with a warning), gutter: 0 (pt between copies, 0–720), margin: 0 (pt the device can't print around the paper: the imageable area is inside it), marks: {trim, registration, colorBars, pageInfo, kind: roman|japanese, weight: 0.25, offset: 6} (as document.exportPdf, at the paper's scale; page information adds the tile and the ink), bleed: {useDocument: true (the document's bleed, document.setup), top, bottom, left, right} (pt), output: {mode: composite|separations (one grey page per ink that prints), emulsion: up|down (down mirrors), image: positive|negative, spotsToProcess, inks: [{name: \"Cyan\"|…|a spot swatch, print: true, frequency (lpi, default 60), angle (default C 15, M 75, Y 0, K 45, spots 45)}]}, graphics: {autoFlatness: true, flatness: 1 (0.2–100), fonts: none|subset|complete}, color: {intent: perceptual|relativeColorimetric|saturation|absoluteColorimetric, preserveNumbers: true (CMYK colours keep their values), profile: \"\" (the printer profile, an RGB or CMYK one: composite PDF colours are converted to it with the intent, separations separate with a CMYK one; empty: as they are)}, advanced: {printAsBitmap (composite pages print as one image each, at the document's raster effects resolution, or lower for a page larger than 64 Mpx or 32,768 px a side), overprints: preserve|discard|simulate (composite output; preserve writes them to overprint (/OP), simulate prints them as Overprint Preview shows them; separations always keep them), flattenerPreset: \"\" (a flattener preset, built-in or saved: transparency is flattened before printing; empty: it prints live; PostScript defaults to medium)}, tileOrigin: {placed: false, x, y} (where the Print Tiling tool put the pages: print.tiling.set)}} store the print settings with the document, over the ones it has or the preset's (null keeps a value), as one undo step; no settings or preset → {settings} (the current ones, defaults if never set up)",
+            "{preset?: name ([Default] or a saved print preset, any case: print.presets.list; its settings replace the document's, as choosing it in the Print dialog does), settings?: {copies: 1 (1–999), collate: true, reverse, artboards: all|range|ignore (all the art as one page), range: \"1-3, 5\" (1-based, with artboards: range), skipBlank (leave out artboards with no art that prints), media: letter|legal|tabloid|a3|a4|a5|a6|b4|b5|b4 (jis)|b5 (jis)|b6 (jis)|japanese postcard|japanese double postcard|japanese envelope #3|japanese envelope #4|kaku #2|kaku #3|yonroku-ban|custom (a paper is named by its id or its dialog label, any case and spacing, so `B5 (JIS)` works; b4 and b5 stay the ISO 216 sizes, 250 × 353 and 176 × 250 mm, and the JIS sizes are b4 (jis) 257 × 364 mm, b5 (jis) 182 × 257 mm and b6 (jis) 128 × 182 mm), width, height (custom paper, 72–14400 pt), orientation: portrait|landscape|portraitFlipped|landscapeFlipped, autoRotate: true (turn the paper to each artboard; orientation ignored), transverse (the page a quarter turn on the paper), printLayers: visiblePrintable|visible|all (template layers never print), placement: {origin: topLeft|top|topRight|left|center|right|bottomLeft|bottom|bottomRight (the point of the printed area, the artboard with its bleed and marks, on the same point of the imageable area), x, y (pt, right and down)}, scaling: none|fit|custom|tileFull|tileImageable, scale: {width: 100, height: 100} (% with custom and tiling), overlap: 0 (pt between tiles), tileRange: \"\" (1-based tiles across then down; empty: all), copiesPerSheet: false (not with tiling: as many copies of each artboard, with its bleed and marks, as fit the imageable area, across then down, not turned; the placement places the grid; an artboard that doesn't fit prints one copy per sheet, with a warning), gutter: 0 (pt between copies, 0–720), margin: 0 (pt the device can't print around the paper: the imageable area is inside it), marks: {trim, registration, colorBars, pageInfo, kind: roman|japanese, weight: 0.25, offset: 6} (as document.exportPdf, at the paper's scale; page information adds the tile and the ink), bleed: {useDocument: true (the document's bleed, document.setup), top, bottom, left, right} (pt), output: {mode: composite|separations (one grey page per ink that prints), emulsion: up|down (down mirrors), image: positive|negative, spotsToProcess, inks: [{name: \"Cyan\"|…|a spot swatch, print: true, frequency (lpi, default 60), angle (screen angle, degrees counter-clockwise as PostScript setscreen takes it; default C 15, M 75, Y 0, K 45, spots 45)}]}, graphics: {autoFlatness: true, flatness: 1 (0.2–100), fonts: none|subset|complete}, color: {intent: perceptual|relativeColorimetric|saturation|absoluteColorimetric, preserveNumbers: true (CMYK colours keep their values), profile: \"\" (the printer profile, an RGB or CMYK one: composite PDF colours are converted to it with the intent, separations separate with a CMYK one; empty: as they are)}, advanced: {printAsBitmap (composite pages print as one image each, at the document's raster effects resolution, or lower for a page larger than 64 Mpx or 32,768 px a side), overprints: preserve|discard|simulate (composite output; preserve writes them to overprint (/OP), simulate prints them as Overprint Preview shows them; separations always keep them), flattenerPreset: \"\" (a flattener preset, built-in or saved: transparency is flattened before printing; empty: it prints live; PostScript defaults to medium)}, tileOrigin: {placed: false, x, y} (where the Print Tiling tool put the pages: print.tiling.set)}} store the print settings with the document, over the ones it has or the preset's (null keeps a value), as one undo step; no settings or preset → {settings} (the current ones, defaults if never set up)",
             has_doc,
             setup
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/textedit.rs

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Character",
             [],
             None,
-            "{id? (default: the one selected type object), start?: byte, end?: byte (default: all text), story?: bool = false (all the text of every frame of the threaded story `id` is a frame of, in one undo step; no `start` or `end`), font?, style?, size?: pt, leading?: pt|\"auto\", tracking?, kerning?: 1/1000 em|\"auto\"|\"optical\", baselineShift?: pt, hScale?: %, vScale?: %, rotation?: deg, fill?: colour|\"none\", stroke?: colour|\"none\" (#rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused in both), keepModel?: bool (fill and stroke, as paint.setFill), strokeWidth?: pt, strokeOptions?: {weight?, cap?, join?, miterLimit?, align?, dash?, dashOffset?, alignDashes?} (as stroke.set: the character stroke), underline?, strikethrough?, allCaps?: bool, smallCaps?: bool, position?: \"normal\"|\"superscript\"|\"subscript\" (sizes from Document Setup), features?: [\"dlig\", \"-liga\", …], featureChanges?: [\"tnum\", \"-onum\", …] (OpenType features turned on, or with - off, on top of each character's own; its other features are kept), charAlign?: \"romanBaseline\"|\"emBoxTop\"|\"emBoxCenter\"|\"emBoxBottom\"|\"icfTop\"|\"icfBottom\", proportionalMetrics?: bool (full-width glyphs on the font's proportional widths: `palt` in horizontal type, `vpal` in vertical type), tateChuYoko?: bool (Character panel menu › Tate-chu-yoko, with Show East Asian Options: in vertical type those characters stand side by side across one em of the column; kept on the characters and ignored in horizontal type), tcyUpDown?, tcyLeftRight?: pt -1296..1296 (Character panel menu › Tate-chu-yoko Settings: in vertical type a block of tate-chu-yoko characters moves up by a positive Up/Down and down by a negative one, right by a positive Left/Right and left by a negative one, as one piece with the values of its first character; on a vertical path a positive Up/Down moves it toward the path's start and a positive Left/Right to the path's left; 0 by default; automatic digit blocks and horizontal type do not move; neither turns tateChuYoko on), standardVerticalRoman?: bool (Character panel menu › Standard Vertical Roman Alignment, with Show East Asian Options: in vertical type those half-width characters, such as Latin letters and digits, stand upright one below the other instead of being rotated; spaces and tate-chu-yoko blocks are not changed; kept on the characters and ignored in horizontal type; off by default), noBreak?: bool (Character panel menu › No Break: these characters stay on one line, including across a space inside the run), kashidas?: bool (Character panel menu › Kashidas: selected characters allow insertion only when both joined neighbors have it on; on by default), charDirection?: \"default\"|\"leftToRight\"|\"rightToLeft\" (Character panel menu › Character Direction: the characters are set left to right or right to left inside their paragraph, as a Unicode bidi embedding; default: as the bidi algorithm sets them), digits?: \"default\"|\"arabic\"|\"hindi\"|\"farsi\"|\"devanagari\"|\"bengali\"|\"gurmukhi\"|\"gujarati\"|\"odia\"|\"tamil\"|\"telugu\"|\"kannada\"|\"malayalam\" (Character panel menu › Digits: the numeral system every digit is drawn in, whatever was typed: Western, Arabic-Indic (hindi), Eastern Arabic-Indic (farsi) or an Indic script's own digits), fontHeightReference?: \"emBox\"|\"capHeight\"|\"xHeight\"|\"icfBox\" (Character panel › Set Font Height Reference: the height of the font that size measures, the em box by default; with a font that has no such height, or one outside 0.1 to 2 em, the em box), language?: name|tag (Character panel › Language: one of Document Setup's languages by name or BCP 47 tag, case-insensitive, such as \"Turkish\" or \"tr\"; the characters are shaped in it, so the font uses that language's forms (OpenType `locl`); saved as the tag, English: USA, the default, as none; new type takes the document's language), fontAxes?: {\"wght\": 650, …} (Character panel › Variable Font: the setting of each variation axis named, in the axis's units and clamped to its range; null: back to the style's own setting; other axes keep theirs; tags the font has no axis for are left out; a font or style change clears them; text.fontList {family, style} lists the axes)} style a character range (size/leading/baselineShift are document points and hScale includes the object transform; runs are split at the range ends) → {id, runs, warning?: text (the font or style set isn't available: its type is drawn in the fallback font or the family's closest style)}",
+            "{id? (default: the one selected type object), start?: byte, end?: byte (default: all text), story?: bool = false (all the text of every frame of the threaded story `id` is a frame of, in one undo step; no `start` or `end`), font?, style?, size?: pt, leading?: pt|\"auto\", tracking?, kerning?: 1/1000 em|\"auto\"|\"optical\", baselineShift?: pt, hScale?: %, vScale?: %, rotation?: deg counter-clockwise (0: upright), fill?: colour|\"none\", stroke?: colour|\"none\" (#rrggbbaa and #rgba are refused in both), keepModel?: bool (fill and stroke, as paint.setFill), strokeWidth?: pt, strokeOptions?: {weight?, cap?, join?, miterLimit?, align?, dash?, dashOffset?, alignDashes?} (as stroke.set: the character stroke), underline?, strikethrough?, allCaps?: bool, smallCaps?: bool, position?: \"normal\"|\"superscript\"|\"subscript\" (sizes from Document Setup), features?: [\"dlig\", \"-liga\", …], featureChanges?: [\"tnum\", \"-onum\", …] (OpenType features turned on, or with - off, on top of each character's own; its other features are kept), charAlign?: \"romanBaseline\"|\"emBoxTop\"|\"emBoxCenter\"|\"emBoxBottom\"|\"icfTop\"|\"icfBottom\", proportionalMetrics?: bool (full-width glyphs on the font's proportional widths: `palt` in horizontal type, `vpal` in vertical type), tateChuYoko?: bool (Character panel menu › Tate-chu-yoko, with Show East Asian Options: in vertical type those characters stand side by side across one em of the column; kept on the characters and ignored in horizontal type), tcyUpDown?, tcyLeftRight?: pt -1296..1296 (Character panel menu › Tate-chu-yoko Settings: in vertical type a block of tate-chu-yoko characters moves up by a positive Up/Down and down by a negative one, right by a positive Left/Right and left by a negative one, as one piece with the values of its first character; on a vertical path a positive Up/Down moves it toward the path's start and a positive Left/Right to the path's left; 0 by default; automatic digit blocks and horizontal type do not move; neither turns tateChuYoko on), standardVerticalRoman?: bool (Character panel menu › Standard Vertical Roman Alignment, with Show East Asian Options: in vertical type those half-width characters, such as Latin letters and digits, stand upright one below the other instead of being rotated; spaces and tate-chu-yoko blocks are not changed; kept on the characters and ignored in horizontal type; off by default), noBreak?: bool (Character panel menu › No Break: these characters stay on one line, including across a space inside the run), kashidas?: bool (Character panel menu › Kashidas: selected characters allow insertion only when both joined neighbors have it on; on by default), charDirection?: \"default\"|\"leftToRight\"|\"rightToLeft\" (Character panel menu › Character Direction: the characters are set left to right or right to left inside their paragraph, as a Unicode bidi embedding; default: as the bidi algorithm sets them), digits?: \"default\"|\"arabic\"|\"hindi\"|\"farsi\"|\"devanagari\"|\"bengali\"|\"gurmukhi\"|\"gujarati\"|\"odia\"|\"tamil\"|\"telugu\"|\"kannada\"|\"malayalam\" (Character panel menu › Digits: the numeral system every digit is drawn in, whatever was typed: Western, Arabic-Indic (hindi), Eastern Arabic-Indic (farsi) or an Indic script's own digits), fontHeightReference?: \"emBox\"|\"capHeight\"|\"xHeight\"|\"icfBox\" (Character panel › Set Font Height Reference: the height of the font that size measures, the em box by default; with a font that has no such height, or one outside 0.1 to 2 em, the em box), language?: name|tag (Character panel › Language: one of Document Setup's languages by name or BCP 47 tag, case-insensitive, such as \"Turkish\" or \"tr\"; the characters are shaped in it, so the font uses that language's forms (OpenType `locl`); saved as the tag, English: USA, the default, as none; new type takes the document's language), fontAxes?: {\"wght\": 650, …} (Character panel › Variable Font: the setting of each variation axis named, in the axis's units and clamped to its range; null: back to the style's own setting; other axes keep theirs; tags the font has no axis for are left out; a font or style change clears them; text.fontList {family, style} lists the axes)} style a character range (size/leading/baselineShift are document points and hScale includes the object transform; runs are split at the range ends) → {id, runs, warning?: text (the font or style set isn't available: its type is drawn in the fallback font or the family's closest style)}",
             has_doc,
             set_range_style
         ),
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "Touch Type",
             [],
             None,
-            "{id, start: byte (a character of it), dx?: pt, dy?: pt, hScale?: %, vScale?: %, rotation?: deg} change one character (a ligature, one glyph for several characters, as a whole) as a Touch Type tool drag does, as one undo step: dx moves it along its line in reading order by changing the kerning of the character before it on the line and its own kerning, and the characters after it stay where they are (an error for the first logical character of a line or at a reading-direction boundary; supported in either reading direction; limited to what kerning from -1000 to 10000 can give); dy raises it (baseline shift, up from its line whatever its rotation, also for the first character of a line and a right-to-left character); dx and dy are document points; hScale (including the object transform), vScale and rotation set its scales and rotation as text.setRangeStyle does. The kerning of the two characters also keeps the character and the ones after it where they were along the line when the font kerned them with their neighbors; a wider or narrower character moves the ones after it by the change in its width → {id, start, end} (the character's bytes)",
+            "{id, start: byte (a character of it), dx?: pt, dy?: pt, hScale?: %, vScale?: %, rotation?: deg counter-clockwise (0: upright)} change one character (a ligature, one glyph for several characters, as a whole) as a Touch Type tool drag does, as one undo step: dx moves it along its line in reading order by changing the kerning of the character before it on the line and its own kerning, and the characters after it stay where they are (an error for the first logical character of a line or at a reading-direction boundary; supported in either reading direction; limited to what kerning from -1000 to 10000 can give); dy raises it (baseline shift, up from its line whatever its rotation, also for the first character of a line and a right-to-left character); dx and dy are document points; hScale (including the object transform), vScale and rotation set its scales and rotation as text.setRangeStyle does. The kerning of the two characters also keeps the character and the ones after it where they were along the line when the font kerned them with their neighbors; a wider or narrower character moves the ones after it by the change in its width → {id, start, end} (the character's bytes)",
             has_doc,
             touch_type
         ),

crates/engine/src/cmd/views.rs

@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ static NEW_VIEW: ParamSchema = ParamSchema::new(
         Param::new("name", Type::String).default_note("the first free \"View N\"").null_omitted(),
         Param::new("center", Type::Point),
         Param::new("zoom", Type::Number { min: Some(Bound::Exclusive(0.0)), max: None, unit: None }).doc("1 = 100%"),
-        Param::new("rotation", Type::Number { min: None, max: None, unit: Some("deg") }).defaults_to("0"),
+        Param::new("rotation", Type::Number { min: None, max: None, unit: Some("deg") })
+            .defaults_to("0")
+            .doc("clockwise on screen, as view.rotate turns the view"),
     ],
     "save a view in the document (the app fills in the current one; at most 25, names up to 255 characters, each name once)",
 )
@@ -46,7 +48,8 @@ static EDIT_VIEWS: ParamSchema = ParamSchema::new(
     "rename or delete saved views, all in one undo step; names are those before the edit and must stay unique; no params → {views}",
 );
 
-static LIST_VIEWS: ParamSchema = ParamSchema::new(&[], "").returns("{views: [{name, center, zoom, rotation}]}").writes(Writes::Nothing);
+static LIST_VIEWS: ParamSchema =
+    ParamSchema::new(&[], "").returns("{views: [{name, center, zoom, rotation (degrees clockwise)}]}").writes(Writes::Nothing);
 
 static TRANSPARENCY_GRID: ParamSchema = ParamSchema::new(
     &[Param::new("on", Type::Boolean).default_note("toggle").null_omitted()],
@@ -86,7 +89,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             "New View…",
             ["View"],
             None,
-            "{name?: string (default: the first free \"View N\"), center: [x, y], zoom: number > 0 (1 = 100%), rotation?: number deg (default: 0)} save a view in the document (the app fills in the current one; at most 25, names up to 255 characters, each name once) → {name, index}",
+            "{name?: string (default: the first free \"View N\"), center: [x, y], zoom: number > 0 (1 = 100%), rotation?: number deg (default: 0) (clockwise on screen, as view.rotate turns the view)} save a view in the document (the app fills in the current one; at most 25, names up to 255 characters, each name once) → {name, index}",
             has_doc,
             new_view,
             schema: &NEW_VIEW
@@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ pub fn specs() -> Vec<CommandSpec> {
             edit_views,
             schema: &EDIT_VIEWS
         ),
-        cmd!(query "view.saved.list", "Saved Views", [], None, "{} → {views: [{name, center, zoom, rotation}]}", has_doc, list_views, schema: &LIST_VIEWS),
+        cmd!(query "view.saved.list", "Saved Views", [], None, "{} → {views: [{name, center, zoom, rotation (degrees clockwise)}]}", has_doc, list_views, schema: &LIST_VIEWS),
         cmd!(
             query "view.transparencyGrid",
             "Show Transparency Grid",