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## 5.3 Mark objects

Mark's objects are useful to mark points in your drawing. They come with different looks (little circles, discs, squares, boxes, or crosses). Note that marks behave quite different from other objects. In particular, you should not confuse a disc mark with a little disc created as a circle object:

- a mark only obeys the stroke color
- when you scale a mark, it will not change its size (you can change the mark size from the configuration panel, though)
- the bounding box of a mark only contains the mark's center
- when you rotate a mark, it does not change its orientation

You can change a mark's type and size later.

Sometimes you may wish you had a mark with, say, black boundary and white interior (because you want to place it on some dark, but irregular background). The best way to achieve this is to place two marks, a white disc and a black circle on top of each other. You could either group one such double-mark and then paste it to the desired locations (the pasting mechanism will put the center of the mark at the point location, so you can work as usual with marks), but you can also just place the white discs. Then set snap to vertex on, and place the black circles. Or you may want to install such a marker as a template.

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