Basically I want to clip object A by object B in such a way that if I edit B afterwards, A reflects this change. I can sort of get the results I want by cloning B and clipping A by the clone. But this has several limitations: 1. I have to redo the process every time I add a new object to be clipped ...

why can't you just delete the white square -or assign it no fill no stroke? Yeah, my OP was a somewhat trivial example, but imagine if instead the black square were a gradient from opaque to transparent. Then the opaque edge would have the faint white line around it. You could fix it by slightly mo...

Inkscape makes very small rendering errors that can, in certain situations, look really bad in your final raster of an SVG. They occur when the edges of two shapes coincide - a common occurrence when you have stacked duplicates. For example, look at this image. This consists of a black background wi...