RE: Minutes, June 9 2011 SVG WG telcon

Hi David and all,

--Original Message--:
><snip/>
>Currently in aligning text to a (baseline) curve in SVG, the characters are never distorted, merely positioned and rotated. To accomplish the full fledged dual-path approach to alignment, one will probably need to apply 3D transforms to the glyphs, but that will be a part of SVG2, anyhow, so it is not too far a stretch perhaps?

Actually since SVG 1.0 there has been an attribute 'method' on <textPath> when set to 'stretch' is
supposed to do most of what you describe here.

No-one has ever implemented it as far as I'm aware.

Cheers,
Alex

>Regards
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>David
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>From: www-svg-request@w3.org [mailto:www-svg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Rik Cabanier
>Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 4:56 PM
>To: www-svg
>Subject: Minutes, June 9 2011 SVG WG telcon
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>Present: Cameron, Doug, Chris, Rik
>Chair: Cameron
>Scribe: Rik
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>http://www.w3.org/2011/06/09-svg-minutes.html
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>   [1]W3C
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>      [1] http://www.w3.org/
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>                               - DRAFT -
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>                   SVG Working Group Teleconference
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>09 Jun 2011
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>   [2]Agenda
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>      [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2011AprJun/0137.html
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>   See also: [3]IRC log
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>      [3] http://www.w3.org/2011/06/09-svg-irc
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>Attendees
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>   Present
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>   Regrets
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>   Chair
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>          Cameron
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>   Scribe
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>          cabanier
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>Contents
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>     * [4]Topics
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>         1. [5]SVG 1.1 Second Edition
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>         2. [6]Seattle F2F form
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>         3. [7]CSS WG testing
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>         4. [8]Text layout
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>         5. [9]FX taskforce
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>     * [10]Summary of Action Items
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>   <trackbot> Date: 09 June 2011
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>   <shepazu> [11]http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9122
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>     [11] http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-9122
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>   <heycam> ScribeNick: cabanier
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>   <heycam> CM: let's get started
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>SVG 1.1 Second Edition
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>   DS: did you catch the out of date reference?
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>   CL: I did not. didn't think it was prudent to change
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>   ... can you still change?
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>   <heycam> CM: I saw philippe mentioned our CSS2.0 reference, did you
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>   explain that to him?
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>   <heycam> CL: yes
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>   CM: there are 4 weeks to comment and then will become recommended
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>   there weren't too many people commenting. There is a culture where
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>Seattle F2F form
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>   CM: form is supposed to be done at the end of the mont
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>   ... send a reminder to get topics for the venue
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>   ... one of the agenda items is the FX topics but we will wait until
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>   Vincent calls in
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>CSS WG testing
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>   <heycam> [12]http://www.w3.org/mid/4DDA7888.6030707@w3.org
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>     [12] http://www.w3.org/mid/4DDA7888.6030707@w3.org
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>   <shepazu> public-test-infra@w3.org
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>   DS: in the testing taskforce there is a consensus to use the stuff
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>   that Peter Linss has done for CSS
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>   ... he wrote a framework to aggregate the tests
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>   the framework allows to run a subset of the tests. when running test
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>   you can run all tests or just a couple
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>   DS: I want him to come talk to us because we feel strongly to have
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>   unified testing
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>   CM: should one of us call in?
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>   DS: I'll follow up with him
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>   ... he responded off-list that he wanted more information
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>   <scribe> ACTION: shepazu to follow up with Peter Linss about testing
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>   [13]http://www.w3.org/2011/06/09-svg-minutes.html#action01]
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>Text layout
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>   ds: we have to wait for Vincent to be here
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>   CM: I made a recent proposal for positioning
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>   ... I didn't read Rik's email reply yet
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>   <heycam> RC: it seems that svg is trying to do two things at once
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>   <heycam> ... it's doing layout for you, but also wants to provide
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>   <heycam> ... it's a little bit the same thing with ligatures
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>   <heycam> ... it'll create ligatures for you, but then also wants to
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>   give you the ability with positioning not to create ligatures
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>   <heycam> ... so it seems a bit messy
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>   <heycam> ... I propose that maybe we should have a new type of text,
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>   more like pdf, specifying individual glyphs taht you want to use
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>   <heycam> ... so you can choose the ligatures
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>   <heycam> ... and you always specify glyph positions
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>   <heycam> ... and the existing <text> will be automatically laid out
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>   text
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>   <ChrisL> sounds like a glyphlist rather than text - so would need an
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>   <heycam> ... and it can create ligatures on the fly for you
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>   <heycam> ... so people who want a simple interface can still have
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>   that, but people like us, who want more control over glyph selection
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>   and positioning can have that as well
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>   <heycam> CM: we may need to have glyph indexing
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>   <ChrisL> the interaction between altglyph and opentype layout tables
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>   <heycam> CM: but we do have <altGlyph> and <glyphDef>
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>   DS: do we have properties to control if ligatures are formed?
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>   <ChrisL> CSS3 has a way to disable discretionary ligatures
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>   CM: true
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>   ... but, I don't think that turns of mandatory ones
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>   DS: ok
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>   CM: I'm not completely well versed in the area.
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>   DS: seems like a pain
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>   CL: I understand that the idea behind the 2 modes
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>   CM: do we want 'abc' or indexes into the font file
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>   CL: not sure
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>   RC: going the PDF way might be very difficult
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>   CM: not if just using glyph ids
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>   RC: true
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>   CM: SVG is not ideal for absolute position but there is a need for
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>   ... Rik do you have an opinion
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>   RC: I was looking at it from absolute positioning
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>   CM: we need to keep allowing positioning in the current SVG text
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>   ... and make it as accessible as possible
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>   CL: one of the reasons that was added was for adding more
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>   RC: and every glyph could have its own matrix
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>   CM: yes by specifiying a rotation
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>   ... maybe we should present this at the face-to-face
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>   ... I need to implement it anyway and I will start off with my
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>   proposal
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>   ... I will give more detail at the F2F
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>   ... for the use case of absolute positioning, we should try to
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>   support better and someone should start on a proposal
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>   ... rik, do you want to take this on?
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>   RC: I will discuss with Vincent but Adobe's interested.
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>   CM: using glyph indices is probably a good way
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>   RC: using glyph indices requires you have the font
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>   CM: I think that is reasonable.
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>   ... that the font is always there when you do absolute positioning
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>FX taskforce
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>   DS: want to discuss the CSS and SVG charters
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>   CM: should we wait for vincent
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>   DS: we'll talk about it via email
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>Summary of Action Items
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>   [NEW] ACTION: shepazu to follow up with Peter Linss about testing
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>   [recorded in
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>   [14]http://www.w3.org/2011/06/09-svg-minutes.html#action01]
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>   [End of minutes]
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