Re: SVG 1.2 Comment: 4 Flowing text and graphics from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2004-11-04 (www-svg@w3.org from November 2004)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:29:13 +0100
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: www-svg@w3.org
Message-ID: <419584b3.822647855@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Ian Hickson wrote:
>Why don't authoring tools automatically perform multiline flow over 
>multiple <text> elements, then? This wouldn't require any additions to 
>SVG, it would be purely an authoring-time problem. This would free up 
>rendering user agents from having to do any line breaking work, and would 
>allow authoring tools to compete on the quality of their flowing text 
>implementations.

ChartML + sXBL authors would have to write the authoring tool first.

Received on Thursday, 4 November 2004 01:30:04 UTC