Re: [svgwg] Baseline information for contextual layout (#739) from Mike Bremford via GitHub on 2019-09-24 (public-svg-issues@w3.org from September 2019)

From: Mike Bremford via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:16:21 +0000
To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
Message-ID: <issue_comment.created-534579409-1569334579-sysbot+gh@w3.org>

To give this some context - one of my goals would be to make this sort of structure possible (photo taken from a children's book)

![pathtext](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/989243/65518628-83633880-dedc-11e9-8a5a-998488e3a790.jpg)

Which, I would imagine, you would be able to create with something like this:

```xml
<p>
 It sounds
 <svg style="width:content-fit; height: content-fit; alignment-baseline: alphabetic">
  <text i-am-the-horizontal-baseline="">
   <textPath path="..."><tspan class="large">utterly dreary</tspan> to me</textPath>
  </text>
 </svg>
 <br/>
 When I get home I...
</p>
```
(Note I'm also anticipating an as-yet-unspecced "content-fit" value for SVG width and height which would shrink the SVG to the bounds of its visible content)

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