[svgwg] tspan and text shaping (#634) from Evgeniy Reizner via GitHub on 2019-01-21 (public-svg-issues@w3.org from January 2019)

From: Evgeniy Reizner via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:03:43 +0000
To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
Message-ID: <issues.opened-401300872-1548068622-sysbot+gh@w3.org>

RazrFalcon has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/svgwg:

== tspan and text shaping ==
```xml
<svg viewBox="0 0 200 200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" font-family="Arial" font-size="48">
    <path id="crosshair" d="M 20 100 L 180 100 M 100 20 L 100 180" stroke="gray" stroke-width="0.5"/>

    <text id="text1" x="50" y="100">
        T<tspan fill="green">e</tspan>xt
    </text>

    <text id="text2" x="50" y="140">
        Text
    </text>

    <rect id="frame" x="1" y="1" width="198" height="198" fill="none" stroke="black"/>
</svg>
```

![test13](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/725494/51470557-e6646480-1d7c-11e9-902f-0808f96c3978.png)

According to the SVG spec, text shaping should be done to the whole *text chunk*, which in our case is the whole word. But looks like only Firefox does this right. Is it so or am I missing something?

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/634 using your GitHub account

Received on Monday, 21 January 2019 11:03:45 UTC