On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:23 AM, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > Not sure what you mean by 'tag' here. An XML element or an attribute?
I was thinking an element. > 'display' is needed anyway to control the layout, for example it controls if > the > element is a block element (paragraph) or a inline element (character > sequence) > or none (nonvisible elements). Hm, true. My XML is rather rusty... > Using SVG this way would be quite unsatisfactory for the user :-). > Textframes primarily display character content, the elements are just for > formatting and grouping. OTOH in SVG most content is defined by elements > without any character content. Vector data is not text data. That's generally true, though I've made a number of half-page and full-page files in Inkscape for use in a Scribus file (or at work, Illustrator and InDesign), and they included full paragraphs of text in SVG. -- Steve Herrick Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. - Hobbes the tiger
