Re: Wrapping Text in SVG 2

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
>




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