I started thinking about this problem and couldn't come up with an easy solution in Xara. For me, the real question became:

Can shapes or lines be joined in such a way as to enable distortion of the combined figure by moving a single node at a junction of the lines or shapes?

For example, take the simple case of three lines radiating from a point. Can the lines be joined in a way that would allow me to move the point at which the lines meet without moving their endpoints? You could obviously move each line separately, but that is three operations, rather than one.

If there was a way to do this in Xara, I think Tremendous might be able to do what he wants to do.

- Pete