Re: RTL text alignment tests in SVG 1.1

On Friday, March 19, 2010, 4:19:41 PM, Erik wrote:

ED> Hello,

ED> I'm wondering what to do with the RTL testcases in SVG1.1F2, which are
ED> affected by the clarified wording for RTL text alignment in SVGT1.2.

ED> This affects this test:

ED>    http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/test/svg/fonts-glyph-02-t.svg

ED> which has a counterpart in the SVGT1.2 testsuite:

ED>   
ED> http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/test/htmlObjectHarness/fonts-glyph-02-t.html

ED> For reference, see definitions of 'text-anchor' in SVG1.1[1] and  
ED> SVGT1.2[2], and the sections on bidi handling[3][4]. FWIW I think 1.2T
ED> conveys the intent of the SVG 1.1 spec, so I think backporting the changes
ED> made for the RTL text tests in the 1.2T testsuite to the SVG1.1F2  
ED> testsuite would be reasonable.

I agree, its a clarification so the better wording should be backported.

And I think this is one of the 1.2T tescases that should be backported to the 1.1F2 harness to as its a better test.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG

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