Hi, Wade- Thanks for the affirmation.
I'll keep this list informed as we make edits to the spec. I hope to keep this proposal pretty simple: basically, SVG text would just become CSS box-model text. Regards- -Doug On 6/5/13 8:50 AM, G. Wade Johnson wrote: > Hi Doug, > > On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:57:42 -0400 > Doug Schepers <[email protected]> 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 > ------------------------------------ ----- 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/
