A few questions

[Jesse James Garrett]

>Couldn't I create an arc as a shape by entering the appropriate
>commands in my private shapes.graffleshapes file? I assume it would
>use "curveto" instead of "lineto", but I could use the existing
>shapes text file as a guide.

Indeed, it seems to me that all you'd have to do is copy the 
SemiCircle shape, cut the last 'lineto' and you'd have your arc.

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