Re: Agenda, 13 January 2011 SVG WG telcon

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.

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Received on Thursday, 20 January 2011 20:34:15 UTC