I feel this is a very good use of our funds - SVG is very important to us
and also we as a project are important for SVG. This is an opportunity to
get features we care about into the spec that may not reoccur for several
years. I fully support funding Tav's travel to this meeting.
Best regards, Krzysztof
On 3 Dec 2015 14:09, "Tavmjong Bah" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The SVG Working Group will be holding a face-to-face meeting in Sydney
> at the beginning of February. I know we've discussed funding SVG
> Working Group travel through dedicated fund raising but as that system
> is not yet functional (and as we've been quite successful in raising
> funds the past two years) I would like to see how board members feel
> about my asking for funding to travel to this meeting.
>
> The SVG 2 specification is firming up. The one big section that still
> needs work is the text chapter. The major difficulty here is the need
> to interface to all the relevant CSS text specifications, some of which
> are not very far advanced. I've got a ton of issues that need
> addressing. At the Sydney meeting there will be a one day joint meeting
> with the CSS working group. Being able to sit down with the CSS people
> is the best way of making progress.
>
> I've been doing most of the work for the text section. I've had some
> help from another group member but he's in the process of ramping down
> his participation in the working group. The Sydney meeting is likely
> the last meeting he'll attend.
>
> I estimate the cost for attending the Sydney meeting to be about the
> same as last year: a bit under $2500 (I was reimbursed $2250 last
> year).
>
> Last year's Sydney meeting was very successful from our perspective.
> One can read my report at: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?m=201502 This
> year's meeting will be more on dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's
> as we try to get the spec out the door.
>
> BTW, as I work on the spec, I've also been working on Inkscape's text
> rendering. I've recently fixed some issues with vertical text as well
> as issues with multi-line text. I've also implemented the new 'text-
> orientation' attribute and there is a rendering only implementation of
> SVG 2.0 wrapped text.
>
> Tav
>
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