Hi Doug, On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:57:42 -0400 Doug Schepers <d...@schepers.cc> wrote:
> Hi, folks- > > Some of you may remember me, though I haven't been very active in > this list for a while. I work for W3C, I'm on the SVG Working Group, > and I've been developing SVG apps and docs since about 2000 (though > I'm a little rusty with development :D). I'm writing today to mention > a proposal for the SVG 2 spec, and to solicit feedback. > > Over the years, I've spoken to many people who use SVG, and one of > the pain points they remark on is wrapping text (aka multi-line text > or flowing text). > > For a while now, we've planned to allow text wrapping into arbitrary > shapes, most recently as part of the CSS regions, exclusions, and > shapes specs. But those might take a while. > > In the short term, I think there's room for simple text wrapping > based on CSS's box model. Effectively, by providing a width to a > <text> element in SVG, it would wrap the text to that width. Definitely agreed. > I think this is a pretty simple proposal, and it could be implemented > fairly quickly after being specced out in SVG 2. The proposal looks quite good as a starting point. I can imagine it being extended unnecessarily before actually being added. But that may just be because I'm cynical. > You can read more about my rough proposal here: > * http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Proposals/Wrapping_Text > * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2013Jun/0007.html > * http://schepers.cc/its-a-wrap > * http://schepers.cc/svg/text/text-wrap-width.svg > * http://schepers.cc/svg/text/text-wrap-width-tspan.svg > > As regular users of SVG, I'd like to know if there are any > considerations we should take into account, if you feel this would > meet your needs for use in SVG, or if you have any concerns. What you've proposed would handle every case I can think of where I have personally needed text wrapping. I don't do really fancy SVG, but the proposal would solve the problems I've had. G. Wade -- Systems develop goals of their own the instant they come into being. -- John Gall ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
