Comment 4 for bug 579617

Please read <http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles.html> and the following pages of the manual detailing all available 17 tiling symmetries and the other options of the 'Tiled Clones' dialog.

nevit wrote:
> Some of them being the hexagonal tilings (p3x and p6x),
> which I am not sure if any correct implementation can be
> possible with row and column logic.

The manual page explicitly mentions "The terms Rows and Columns are only really appropriate for tiling of rectangular tiles (…)."

> P4g and p4m are rectangular and do not pack as Ok groups above.

see <http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles-Symmetries.html>