Re: ISSUE-2379 (font metrics): Consider adding advanced font metrics interface [SVG 2]

I recently formulated a meager proposal to improve the HTML5 2D Canvas
interface with respect to glyph drawing and metrics. See the following.
Perhaps something similar to this can be considered for SVG usage as well.


   - context.fillGlyph(glyph,x,y)
         - glyph is an integer denoting glyph index, from 0 to N-1, where N
         is number of glyphs in current font (same applies below)
         - x,y - position at which origin of glyph is to be placed (based on
         current transform)
      - context.strokeGlyph(glyph,x,y)
      - metrics = context.measureGlyph(glyph,vertical)
         - vertical is a boolean, where true means that metrics should be
         returned for use with vertical text layout, and false means
that metrics
         should be returned for use with horizontal text layout; note that the
         definition of glyph origin may change with respect to vertical vs
         horizontal;
         - metrics returned is GlyphMetrics object, with all values therein
         determined in accordance with current font, font size, and
transformation
         matrix
      - metrics.bearingX
         - bearingX is real number expressing x distance from glyph origin
         to left-most boundary of bounding box
      - metrics.bearingY
         - bearingY is real number expressing y distance from glyph origin
         to top-most boundary of bounding box
      - metrics.width
         - width is real number expressing width of glyph bounding box (not
         glyph X advancement)
      - metrics.height
         - height is real number expressing height of glyph bounding box
         (not glyph Y advancement)
      - metrics.advanceX
         - advanceX is real number expressing nominal distance to advance
         the x coordinate of the current point after rendering glyph,
where positive
         means left, and negative means right in the user coordinate space;
      - metrics.advanceY
         - advanceY is real number expressing nominal distance to advance
         the y coordinate of the current point after rendering glyph,
where positive
         means down, and negative means up in the user coordinate space


Regards,
Glenn Adams

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:45 PM, SVG Working Group Issue Tracker <
sysbot+tracker@w3.org <sysbot%2Btracker@w3.org>> wrote:

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> ISSUE-2379 (font metrics): Consider adding advanced font metrics interface
> [SVG 2]
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> http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/track/issues/2379
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> Raised by: Doug Schepers
> On product: SVG 2
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> It is often useful to get various aspects of a font as it will appear on
> screen, including the em-width, x-height, baseline, string length, etc.
>  Right now, these aren't exposed to script, but it would be nice to have a
> font metric interface.  Maybe consider this for generalization to CSS/HTML
> as well?
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