reproduced with Inkscape 0.47 and 0.47+devel r9252 on OS X 10.5.8
when creating a smaller offset, both 'Dynamic Offset' and 'Linked Offset' of the path result in adding an additional subpath outside of the original path.
reproduced with Inkscape 0.47 and 0.47+devel r9252 on OS X 10.5.8
when creating a smaller offset, both 'Dynamic Offset' and 'Linked Offset' of the path result in adding an additional subpath outside of the original path.