Hi everyone.

Early in my journey and I won't lie - I'm struggling with some of the logic/behaviours of paths. For example - 

- two overlapping circles (with stroke and fill) are reported as circles until you apply - say - intersection at which point you are left with a path?

- but that path still has a stroke until you apply stroke to path?

- and given a circle with stroke but no fill when you apply stroke to path then break apart you end up with two filled circles - why?

Short version - can anyone point me to a deep description - in any format - regarding the inner workings of all of this? 

Best.

Dave

Much of this is covered in the Tutorials in Inkscape's Help menu.

Beyond those are the Manual:

• This version may trigger browser security warnings, it is fine: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/
• This new version may still be in development:  https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

More in-depth information is here: https://www.peppertop.com/blog/?p=1563

Thanks Tyler.