>From Koji: > But is the requirements for text-on-path the same as break-all? If you > place them on a path, they can keep the shape, but each shape are not > really connected unless the shape is a line, no? Does Gecko do something > special to connect them? > > Text-on-path is more complicated than break-all, yes. In some cases, a path may have a complete break in it, so it would be the same. In other cases, it just has a bend. I should have clarified: SVG does allow ligatures in text-on-a-path (unlike manually positioned characters), and the entire glyph is drawn as a single block, even if it no longer nicely fits the curve of the path. So we will still need special wording for that. It's true, the resulting string of glyphs may no longer connect up nicely like in straight-line text. There is an SVG property to stretch the glyphs into non-rectangles so they connect, but it is not implemented in the browsers (not even Gecko). Gecko also turns off required ligatures when the letters are stroked. When I said Firefox was the best for Arabic text on a path, it is only in comparison to the others, which use all-isolated Arabic letterforms, order the letters backwards, use incorrect alignment so the text gets pushed off the path, and/or otherwise fail completely! (You can play with some of my test cases here: http://oreillymedia.github.io/SVG_Text_Layout/ch09-textPath-files/ I need to create more comprehensive tests of both script font and RTL test cases for the SVG 2 test suite.) ~ABR
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