Grease pencil edit extrude : odd behavior

Question Grease Pencil

I'm a latecomer to GP. Currently using 2.81a on very old laptop. Haven't had a chance to try 3.4 on another computer.

Usually when extruding a stroke in GP edit, I get a new segment ending with a semicircle. From time to time, a square or triangular end appears instead (often unstable and flickering). Am I missing something obvious? Thanks.

  • techworker1 replied

    Yeah, I thought of that too. As they say in Perl, TMTOWTDI - there's more than one way to do it. 

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    I'll have to remember that acronym 👍🏻

  • techworker1 replied

    AKA the “Tim-toady” principle.

  • techworker1 replied

    It seems that the Length modifier (3.x only) is the one I really want for what I was trying to do.