- From: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:40:52 -0400
- To: "'Tavmjong Bah'" <tav.w3c@gmail.com>, 'Frédéric Guimont' <frederic.guimont@savoirfairelinux.com>, "'Amelia Bellamy-Royds'" <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>
- Cc: "'www-svg'" <www-svg@w3.org>
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 4:30 AM Tav wrote: Here are some things I would love to see handled (in rough order of difficulty) along with ideas on how to implement them in a polyfill: [...] * Text on shapes Not supported anywhere yet. Convert shape to path. * SVG 2 Text in shape Partial support by Inkscape. Not clear how to implement in polyfill. ------------ Hi Tav, Frédéric, Not sure if what we've done here [1] would be of use or not, but the software (Tansy) is open source JavaScript and has two possibly relevant things: a) script to find polygons in a line arrangement [2], and then to convert those to SVG paths b) script that flows text into a convex polygon. The software [3] is explained in the paper [1] (which is lengthy) but a brief overview of how to use it can be seen at [4]. The software was developed as a proof of concept that the rectangular box model need not forever constrain our thinking about the web -- in fact it never did until the dang printing press came along. Cheers David [1] http://cs.sru.edu/%7Eddailey/TGW2014/RectilinearMold2.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrangement_of_lines [3] http://cs.sru.edu/%7Eddailey/fonts/Tansy1.7.4.htm [4] http://cs.sru.edu/%7Eddailey/Parisien.html
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