- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:17:06 -0700
- To: John Hewson <john@jahewson.com>
- Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:15 AM, John Hewson <john@jahewson.com> wrote: > I noticed that altGlyph is to be removed from SVG2 along with SVG Fonts: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2014Jun/0086.html > > But this will remove the ability for SVG to access arbitrary glyphs in > fonts, > which is often seen in formats such as PDF and of course, existing SVG 1.1 > documents which make use of SVG Fonts. Currently there’s no way to > port such documents to SVG2. > > Would it be possible to either keep altGlyph and define a format for > glyphRef > to access TTF/OTF glyphs, for example GID 4 could be accessed using: > > <altGlyph glyphRef="gid(4)”>x<altGlyph> > > Better yet, could a minimal replacement for altGlyph be introduced, for > use only with TTF/OTF web fonts? CSS has sprouted a number of controls for accessing alternate glyphs in fonts: <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-fonts/#font-rend-props> Are these sufficient for your needs? If not, CSS's model probably has to become stronger. ~TJ
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