Thank you for the information. There are plenty of bugs related to floated text in launchpad. Is work on some of this bugs would be usefull for the project?
You are mentor, right? Alexandre told me, that you probably would be a mentor for this project. Also he told that inkscape problems with text, and floated text in particular are old problems.
Yevgeny Lezhnin
On 30.03.2012 01:26, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
I began a Wiki page on redoing Inkscape's text handling.[1] The current implementation assumes that everything is flowed text and that normal text is just a special case where the text is flowed into an infinitely wide box. I'll call this a top-down approach. What I describe in the Wiki is a bottom-up approach. I think this is a simpler approach that more easily allows adding new features.
There is one thing to keep in mind: SVG 2 will have text flow into arbitrary shapes using the same mechanism that CSS will use[2]: CSS Exclusions[3] and CSS Regions[4]. Changes to our code should be compatible with these specs. It is too early to know how SVG will incorporate these specs so everything for the moment should be kept in the Inkscape name space.
Tav[1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TextRework [2] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/SVG2_Requirements_Input#Text_flow_to_... [3] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-exclusions/ [4] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-regions/