Re: [Inkscape-devel] Doc scaling compatibility issue (Bug 1389723)

On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 23:46 +0100, C R wrote: It's definitely not doc scaling that is causing this problem. What is more likely is that Inkscape now respects the 'strut' value in the block element per CSS. In plain English, that means that the minimum spacing between lines is defined by the <text> or <flowtext> element that wraps all the text. The minimum spacing is the value of the 'line-height' property times the value of the 'font-size' property. There was a comment in the code saying that this was not implemented in Inkscape because none of the browsers were doing it this way... but that was a long time ago. All the browsers now implement this correctly according to CSS (at least for HTML since SVG 1.1 doesn't have multi- line text). CSS line spacing is definitely a mess (and the CSS group seems to recognize it). But having a strut value is useful as it means being able to define a well know spacing between the lines (see: http://tavmj ong.free.fr/blog/?p=1632 ). The problem for Inkscape is how can the user know what is the value of the 'strut' and how can they change it? We definitely need a better interface. I would consider this a blocker. And we need to be able to control how CSS properties are written into the SVG file; at the moment writing a property into a block element causes the property to be written into all the children elements which is not really desirable in many cases. Tav