Problem joining curve extensions

I'm trying out some typography styles. I made this definition which originally divides the lengths of a textobject, as you can see in the attached file. But for some reason, points-on shows that it retains the point where the old line was. It gives this effect of the text being duplicated, which I don't want. I tried 'rebuild' to bring it down to just 2 points, the only two a line needs. I'm not sure why, maybe someone can explain, but rebuilding the curves to 2 points makes it jut off randomly in the opposite direction.This creates an interesting effect, as seen in the file "you are here3-02.jpg" but it's not what I'm looking for at the moment. My goal is to have a line of random length coming off at a 45 degree angle from the text, so that the text is readable but the tails form a random cloud of lines 45 degrees from it. It would be like "you are here2-02.jpg" except the line tails to the top-left are at random lengths. I'm going from grasshopper, to rhino, to illustrator.

Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by Philip Bussey on November 9, 2014 at 9:14am

Eric - I think this is getting a little closer to what your inspiration image is getting at. I think you might need to do more exploration with the kerning of the letters and the distance of the words form each other to get the desired effect. I also found that a more subtle line extension was necessary to maintain eligibility of the original words.

Hope this helps!

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linetext_EDIT.gh, 17 KB

Permalink Reply by Eric Lawler on November 9, 2014 at 2:55pm

Haha, every time I open your .gh file in grasshopper it crashes rhino, any idea why might that be? This is a very rare thing for me so I don't think it's an issue with my computer...

Permalink Reply by Philip Bussey on November 9, 2014 at 4:14pm

Not sure what happened there, but here's the definition. Like I said, I didn't really change much, just played with the variables.

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linetext_EDIT2.gh, 11 KB

Permalink Reply by Eric Lawler on November 9, 2014 at 11:54pm

Great than you! it worked this time!

However, I'm still getting the same issues. It's still got the redundant control points as you can see below. Is there a way to delete the original line and keep just the extension? Because exporting it to illustrator without anything else than a lineweight applied still shows the fact that there's an unjoined or doubled line. You can see it here: