defining how SVG DOM text methods take into account textLength=""

• From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
• Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 11:50:03 +1000
• To: "www-svg@w3.org" <www-svg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <51DA1ACB.1060409@mcc.id.au>

It's not clear how the various SVG DOM text methods on 
SVGTextContentElement are affected by textLength="" and lengthAdjust="". 
  I think that when lengthAdjust="spacing", they should behave as if the 
glyphs have been repositioned using x="".  That would mean 
getComputedTextLength would return the same value as when there is no 
textLength="".  When lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs", the methods should 
behave as if the glyph cells cover their newly scaled area, and so 
getComputedTextLength would return the textLength value, getExtentOfChar 
would return the scaled glyph cell, etc.

Received on Monday, 8 July 2013 01:50:41 UTC