Re: Carriage return on text element

The SVG working group decided at the very start that we wanted to limit SVG to
single-line text because there are other multi-line XML standards which you
could use for that facilities (e.g., XHTML). Of course, this is a reasonable
long-term approach, as ultimately you will be able to embed XHTML directly
inside of SVG, but it will be a long time before implementations support this
feature.

To accomplish what you are trying to do below, try this:

<text x="..." style="font-family:...; font-size:...; ... ">
  <tspan y="...">Ok now</tspan>
  <tspan y="...">Let's go to the second line !</tspan>
</text>

Jon Ferraiolo
SVG Editor
Adobe Systems Incorporated


At 09:47 PM 6/23/00 -0400, Dany Bouchard wrote: 
>
> This is a very simple question !
> What's the proper way of coding a carriage return in a text element so that
> text shows up on two lines in an svg document where Space=Preserve?
> I want the result to be something like this:
>  
> Ok now
> Let's go to the second line !
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Dany Bouchard
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