- From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:30:39 +1000
- To: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
Hi David, David Dailey wrote: > I've not looked at how implementations differ, but it seems that the > most intuitive thing would be to have the displayed textLength be > either the user-specified number or the width of the longest glyph in > the text. We decided in the call today to clamp textLength="" at the width of the longest glyph. The resulting behaviour of this is for (in LTR text) each glyph to have their right edges aligned. > Realistically though, the cases I've seen where people crowd and > superimpose characters into small rectangles are usually with > monograms and logos, and the characters usually intertwine rather > than superimpose. Sometimes, the "profile" of superimposed characters > leaves enough distinctiveness that the individual glyphs remain > identifiable, but if the space provided were less than the widest > character, it most likely is a mistake. Indeed. So that behaviour should still remain possible by using the glyph positioning attributes, or by extreme 'letter-spacing' values. > Another context I can imagine would be where someone puts all the > glyphs in separate tspans and then animates the visibility of those, > to provide an effect of "spelling" out the phrase, on character at a > time, in place. That should still be possible. (Not sure that textLength="" impacts on that?)
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