- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:33:38 +1300
- To: Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com>
- Cc: public-svg-wg@w3.org
Erik Dahlstrom: > I went through and checked, and there are no RTL tests in text-text-*. I was probably confusing myself there. Some of the text-text-* ones have that text-anchor issue. Can you remind me what the status of this issue is? Is there a problem with the spec, the test and/or implementations? > >>- text-text-05-t.svg: The reference image seems to indicate that the > >>tightest fitting bbox around the text should be used for text-anchor > >>adjustments and not the sum of the advances (note that the biggest > >>square doesn't fully fill it's em-box). Can't find that requirement > >>in the spec. > > > >If there’s no requirement in the spec, then sum of the advances sounds > >more reasonable to me. > > So I went back and checked again, and found for text-anchor="end" > that "The rendered characters are aligned such that the end of the > text string is at the initial current text position.". So, it depends > on what "the end of the text string" is considered to be. You could > probably also design a font such that text-anchor="start" would show > the same "misalignment". Right. So using the advances makes sense. -- Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/
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