Re: SVG Fonts

On 4/09/09 6:39 PM, svgNick wrote:
> Are there any plans to implement SVG fonts in Firefox?   By SVG fonts
> I mean the font tag defined in the SVG spec as distinct from fonts
> installed on the user computer.   An example of what I'm talking about
> is the Chess
> Sophia Font produced by Max Froumentain formely of W3C.
>
> the first part of it looks like this:
> <font horiz-adv-x="0">
> <font-face font-family="ChessSophia" units-per-em="1000" panose-1="0 0
> 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0" ascent="1000" descent="0" alphabetic="0"/>
> <missing-glyph horiz-adv-x="500" d="M63 0V1000H438V0H63ZM125
> 63H375V938H125V63Z"/>

Recently I've been wondering what the actual need is for SVG fonts. What 
can SVG fonts do that you can't do with a custom Truetype/Opentype font?

Rob