Re: Flowing text in SVG2

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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:19 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Dear Sirs and Madams,
>
> I am writing you on behalf of Inkscape and Chromium community to ask.
>
> What is the flowed text
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/flow.html replacement in the
> next more advanced and awesome SVG2?
>
> I am asking, because it seems to be a valuable feature for Inkscape -
> http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Text-Creating.html#Text-Enter-Flow that
> allows to insert linebreaks automatically for text inside some shape. Right
> now Inkscape uses flowRoot and friend elements, which were not adopted in
> SVG1.2. Does SVG2 include this user story? Does it consider this feature
> useful? If not, then why? If this user story is not covered, then what
> alternative is proposed?
>
> I am asking, because I author SVG files in Inkscape and can not view them
> on Chrome, which is very disappointing -
> https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=225660 - especially
> considering that SVG is meant to be web format. As you may see Chromium
> authors are full with uncertainties too
>
> There are rumors that automatic linefeed insertion belongs to HTML. I
> frankly, do not understand the arguments, reasoning and how it should work.
> Does that need Inkscape to be shipped with Webkit, which will execute HTML
> inside the box? That sounds like an overkill for the linefeed problem.
>
> Please give us an extensive answer to your position. We wholeheartedly
> trust you, but nevertheless are very worried about the practical side of
> SVG2 for us, ordinary users.
>
> Thanks. Please CC.
> --
> anatoly t.
>