text-decoration and overline-position / overline-thickness
Folks;
SVG 1.1 provides the @overline-position and @overline-thickness attributes (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/fonts.html#FontDescriptions) and @text-decoration="overline" (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#TextDecorationProperties).
I can't figure out how to apply such text decorations (in particular, overline) to text in Inkscape, and I'm finding that some rendering engines don't know how to display them. As a test, if one takes opens the file @ http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/text/textdecoration01.svg in Firefox 3.5, the text decorations aren't applied. They are rendered in Safari 4 and Chrome 2.
So what's the *real* status of text decorations in SVG?
Thanks in advance for your help, Bob
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Beims Bob-RWBC70<bob.beims@...2653...> wrote:
Folks;
SVG 1.1 provides the @overline-position and @overline-thickness attributes (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/fonts.html#FontDescriptions) and @text-decoration="overline" (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html#TextDecorationProperties).
We don't support underline or overline yet. Any help in coding these will be much appreciated - you can contact me and I will try to help you get started.
On Jul 21, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Beims Bob-RWBC70 wrote:
As a test, if one takes opens the file @ http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/text/textdecoration01.svg in Firefox 3.5, the text decorations aren't applied. They are rendered in Safari 4 and Chrome 2.
Ah, you've just hit on the crux of the problem.
We have a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation for Inkscape supporting those. Firefox hasn't, so even if we coded it there still would be not as much benefit as there would be otherwise.
To help, talking with the Firefox people about rendering them would be a good idea.
Also... having end users willing to help with defining the task, testing and perhaps even adding a little coding help are some of the best ways to get a feature implemented.
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