Gargoyle Anecdotes This document contains some of the war stories that we have gathered from Gargoyle's users. The moral of the story tends to be that user think of ways to use the system that the implementors never imagined or that a feature that we were a little worried about proved, in the fullness of time, to be a complete disaster. Periods are Circles Lissy wanted to make a small circle. To prevent infinitesimal circles, we had imposed a restriction on how small a scaling factor you could apply in one scaling operation. When Lissy saw that she couldn't make circles as small as she liked, she tried another tackshe used a period from one of the fonts. Fonts can be chosen at any size, so she could have a circle of any size she wanted. We found out about this when she complained that there was no good way to center a period on a point. Result: We greatly reduced the limit on how far you can scale circles.