Re: make font metrics visible to user

Just to add something to your suggestions...
Also, what would be just dandy, is to have the actual bounding box
dimensions for the unicode svg drawing of each font character. Otherwise it
is tedious to accurately place font icons, and other individual characters.
Francis

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Ulrich-Matthias Schäfer <
ulima.ums@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> I am one of the maintainers of the svg.js library and one thing we
> stumpled over was svg text which is really hard to tame. The text is
> positioned relative to the baseline which makes sense in one case but is
> bad in others. We tried to position text based on the upper left edge and
> currently we use browsers bounding box implementation to achieve that.
> However - this differs around browsers and I was looking for a more stable
> way to do that.
> One possibility which came into my mind was to add a method to get the
> metrics of the font which is used. Most importingly the values of
> unitsPerEm and the baseline position. That alone would allow us to move the
> text in a consistent manner.
> Is there any effort I dont know of to put something like this into the
> specs?
>
> Thanks for reading! Cheers,
> Fuzzy
>