Re: WebVTT Text Positioning from Silvia Pfeiffer on 2013-06-26 (public-texttracks@w3.org from June 2013)

From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:03:52 +1000
To: David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com>
Cc: public-texttracks@w3.org
Message-ID: <CAHp8n2=qAPqtHNDiPsQ8rHfdOXZ-1Czv5k-5jRhOXhBgRzqh1Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM, David Ronca <dronca@netflix.com> wrote:
> If I want to position CEA608 text at row 10, column 10 the cue might look
> like this:
>
> Cue-8 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.000 position:35% line:58* align:left
> size:25% Tis a test
>
> There are 10 characters so the size is 10* cell width (2.5%). Wondering if I
> also need to specify the height, which would be one row (5.33%), but I see
> no way to do this with the WebVTT spec. Is line height baked into the
> implementation?

Line height is set by CSS automatically based on font size, and there
is no cue setting for it because there shouldn't be a need to change
it. However, you can always set line-height through CSS.

Silvia.

Received on Wednesday, 26 June 2013 01:04:39 UTC