- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:26:39 +0100
- To: "Doug Schepers" <doug@schepers.cc>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 2:27:45 PM, Doug wrote: DS> Hi, folks- DS> The 1.2 draft mentions how vertically-oriented text is handled, but it DS> doesn't address text on an angle other than 0 or 90 degrees. That is a transformation, not a writing direction. With the exception of the Phaistos disk and Mayan, all writing systems are either horizontal or vertical; graphical effects can make them appear at other angles (text on a path, radial text, etc) but the actual writing direction is one or the other. DS> Also, there is the issue of mixed orientation, such as a 'flowSpan' DS> with vertical orientation emebedded in a 'flowPara' with horizontal DS> orientation. This is a practical consideration, since Japanese DS> documents often have mixed orientations depending on the writing DS> system they are using for a section of text. Will a strip be laid DS> out for this text, or is mixed orientation not allowed? Mixed orientation is typically at the block level. DS> Also, I think that there should be a way to explicitly set line-height. Say, DS> for example, a 'line-height' attribute. It might be the case that the author DS> deliberately wants to overlap lines of text/images. I tend to agree, we should look at what XSL does here. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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