Comment 6 for bug 170883

One comment is that the calligraphy tool does not work quite
like it seems intuitively.

You would think that when you draw a calligraphy stroke,
that it creates a path entity with variable stroke-width as
it goes. However, it's not like that at all; it instead
creates a polygon with a path that goes around the boundary
edges. The interior of this polygon is filled, and it
"looks" like a calligraphy stroke.

It's the peculiarities of this implementation of calligraphy
which makes it really weird to do a "fill within the
calligraphy stroke", since really what this means is "fill
outside the polygon where it intersects itself".

Anyway, possibly this could be achieved, but I would imagine
it'd be fairly tricky to implement.

For the "format paster", like prokoudine pointed out, that
idea probably belongs with the paste-style function, and I
think would be completely unrelated to this calligraphy fill
functionality, so can you review how paste-style works and
then submit a new RFE detailing your idea on how to make it
more powerful?