I always assumed that if we had access to a glyph's footprint (which some browsers do) together with the various test-alignment properties in SVG 1.1, then top-aligned fonts like Hindi and the other non-Dravidian Indian scipts, as well as reverse directional scripts would be straightforward. What problems does Hindi present? I used Tamil just fine in my talk in Chennai a year ago though it is Dravidian, and my Chinese seems to have been acceptable in Guangzhou. Our paper on text and accessibility http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/GeometricAccessibility.html talks about a need for general solutions to alignment, shaping, and the like, as well, as the need to be able to create, customized, roll-your-own fonts on the fly. Half the world's writing uses standardized fonts; another half (for shop signs, graffiti, menus, logos and the like) uses roll-your-own fonts custom-built for specific problems.). Throwing away SVG fonts means dooming half the world's expressions to bitmaps.
Cheers D From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Longson Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 12:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] Re: What am I overlooking? > The only way I could get text to scale properly to a viewBox (and hence to scale in a device-independent way) for most of the examples at http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/text/ was to set textLength and use lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" Firefox, seems to be lagging quite behind in its support of the advanced text handling features of SVG1.1 which is why, I gather, they are recommending that support for text, at least in the form of SVG fonts be dropped from SVG2.0, in the name of progress, I suppose. It remains to be seen if all other aspects of advanced text handling will be dropped from SVG. Part of it, I gather, is that the HTML CSS crowd have discovered how cool SVG effects are and they want to apply them to HTML even if it means trashing SVG in the process. I suppose some, but not all members of the SVG WG might have reason to disagree with my pessimism. > > It's true that Firefox is lagging behind with some text features. That has nothing to do with why we're not doing SVG fonts. SVG Fonts only support some of the world's languages. Those supported languages happen to include the one that you prefer to use - English. If your generally used Hindi for reading/writing you would be asking why you can't use SVG Fonts at all even in the UAs that support them rather than advocating that more UAs support something you just can't use. Robert. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- 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: [email protected] [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/
