At 04:29 AM 2/6/2008, Andreas wrote: Before I saw what Andreas had written I thought of another approach -- using <marker> as in this example:
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/symbol.svg I put a SMIL animation on the markers since I was having trouble figuring out how to position them properly. The animation suggests that this approach might work for Bruce's problem, with some possibly nontrivial fiddling. Andreas, though the approach you recommend makes the most sense, I can't get your code to do anything in IE, and while I see a stairstep and a sine wave (one period) in FF (2.x) there is no visible font; in Opera (9.5) I see a simple sine wave (the font) running linearly across the very top of thescreen but it isn't following the second path at all. It's a fun problem, cause if we could figure out a non-scripted way of doing this, then we'd have a way of deforming textures in a nonlinear fashion -- at least in a piecewise fashion. (The individual glyphs won't warp) I don't see anything other than marker-start, marker-mid and marker-end, but if we had marker(pathAtLength(r)) or somesuch, then we could position markers all along the path. Maybe allowing the layout of elements in a <pattern> to follow a path with orient="auto" would be a worthy addition to the arsenal? David ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ><!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" >"<http://www.w3.org/>http://www.w3.org/ >TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd"> ><svg xmlns="<http://www.w3.org/2000/svg>http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; >xmlns:xlink="http:// >www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="100%" height="100%"> ><defs> ><font id="myFont" horiz-adv-x="100"> ><font-face font-family="My Font" units-per-em="100"/> ><missing-glyph horiz-adv-x="100"/> ><glyph unicode="p" horiz-adv-x="100" d="M 0 0 L 2.5 0 C >50 45 50 -50 102.5 0 L 97.5 0 C 50 -45 50 50 -2.5 0 Z" /> ></font> ></defs> ><path id="myFirstPath" fill="none" stroke="blue" stroke- >width="2" d="M20,300L300,300v100h200"/> ><text font-family="My Font" font-size="60" fill="red"> ><textPath xlink:href="#myFirstPath" method="stretch"> >ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp </textPath> ></text> ><path id="mySecondPath" fill="none" stroke="blue" stroke- >width="2" d="M 100 100 C 300 300 300 -100 500 100"/> ><text font-family="My Font" font-size="60" fill="red"> ><textPath xlink:href="#mySecondPath" method="stretch"> >ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp </textPath> ></text> ></svg> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
