Thanks for briefing me on the current issues of this function. Fortunately for me I happen to be working with 0.92.1 currently, and after trying everything it seems to only work perfectly for me. Currently I doubt I need any more functionality so I'll just hold off on updating my Inkscape for a while.

Ah, that was the piece I was missing! Indeed, the COP effect is 100% what I needed to know about, as it's pretty much solution 2. But it's really difficult to find as the correct solution by oneself without the necessary background. Thanks a ton for this surgically precise tip. Now it's time for me ...

After days of looking through manuals, tutorials and trying out everything I could think of I decided to yield and post my issue here. It seems like a very simple problem to me, but maybe it actually isn't. I hope the title is somewhat clear, but if not, here's a picture to leave nothing up to imagi...