YES YES YES!
That works perfectly! It even allows me to choose which end to tangent from,
thank you so much, Roy you are a genius!
Challenge #2
I have been curious if this would be easily doable (for someone who is way better at code than I):
Select a shared grip where 2 arcs meet, as in the middle of an S shape, the goal being a perfect tangent to tangent S (arcs don't need to be equal radii), and dynamically pull this point around to a new place, leaving a good joint of 2 arcs. This is something that was built into Flash editor, that I used years ago, I'm not sure if Inkscape can do it but I don't like the UI of that app. I prefer Autocad to draw my custom lettering and artwork because I know the program and I do a lot of 3D modelling.
Thanks!
R.L. Hamm