Re: ISSUE-2366 (character position): Add an API to get at the coordinates of individual letters in a string [SVG Accessibility Module]

On Thursday, September 2, 2010, 11:14:45 AM, SVG wrote:

SWGIT> ISSUE-2366 (character position): Add an API to get at the
SWGIT> coordinates of individual letters in a string [SVG Accessibility Module]

SWGIT> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2366

SWGIT> Raised by: Doug Schepers
SWGIT> On product: SVG Accessibility Module

SWGIT> DAISY feedback asks that we add an API to get the coordinates
SWGIT> of individual letters in a string.  What about
SWGIT> getStartPositionOfChar(), getEndPositionOfChar(),
SWGIT> getCharNumAtPosition(), getExtentOfChar()?


Does 'letters' mean characters, or glyphs, here? And does position mean index into a string of characters, or screen position of a glyph?


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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
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Received on Thursday, 2 September 2010 09:55:19 UTC