Re: text decorations and rotated glyphs from Levantovsky, Vladimir on 2012-03-17 (www-svg@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:09:11 +0000
To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
CC: SVG public list <www-svg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <84795BA7-1F09-4DEC-AD24-7842DB3B2E32@MonotypeImaging.com>

I agree. The rotated glyph is part of the text run, and text decoration such as underline should be aligned along the text baseline. 

Thank you,
Vlad

On Mar 17, 2012, at 2:51 AM, "Cameron McCormack" <cam@mcc.id.au> wrote:

> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
>  <text x="100" y="100" rotate="45" text-decoration="underline">A</text>
> </svg>
> 
> Should the underline rotate with the glyph or remain horizontal? Safari/Chrome do the former, Opera the latter.  (Didn't test IE since I did not want to suffer the pain of starting up my VM right now.)  I'm leaning towards preferring rotating the decorations.
>

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