I downloaded and opened the m9 LineStyleRender.mxb Activated the AreasGeomLine tab and clicked "view -- zoom to fit". If I move the "wing chevron" in the upper left of the screen to the left margin, upper margin, or right margin, the line goes from being styled on both sides to being styled on the inside. If I move the "wing chevron" inflection point below the bottom margin of the screen view, the remainder styles on the inside -- move the inflection point above the bottom of the screen margin and it styles on both sides. Where and how the area lines style seems highly dependent on the zoom or scale factor. Is it a bug? I cannot answer that. Like labels, line styles probably have a complex rule set for rendering, so perhaps a more simple formatting of the line style would yield a more reliable indicator of which way the areas are drawn. Are the areas truly closed? Is there a tolerance factor at work here in creating lines from areas so that they are truly closed polygons? The areas table only has three records, but I count seven lines in the drawing. Not sure what the consequences of that will be on the final output, but somehow I feel there is some data in polylines that I might be missing that might explain all these vagaries.
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