Many of the supported border styles involve repeating artifacts: a dot, dash, or a combination of those. However - the user has to select from within a fixed set of combinations of features. It should be possible to specify a sequence of features to use explicitly... * possibly with an indication of the amount of space between features. * possibly with a specification via characters.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 162348 ***
While the two bugs are of course related, they are not dupes. One can very well resolve any one of them without resolving the other. If you think otherwise, please explain.