On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Thomas E Deweese wrote:
> >>>>> "JDE" == J David Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> JDE> Well, if that's the way it works, that's the way it works. The
> JDE> spec is possibly ambiguous, then, when it says about dx (and dy
> JDE> working in a corresponding manner):
>
> [...]
>
> JDE> What bothers me, I guess, is that the child <tspan> can end, but
> JDE> it still has an impact on the subsequent characters of the parent
> JDE> element. This happens almost nowhere else in SVG; when a child
> JDE> element ends, its attributes normally are not visited upon the
> JDE> parent.
>
> I agree with you that on the face of it it's a bit odd, but in
> the end I think it makes sense, after all after the tspan ends the
> current character position is updated to a point after the last
> character of the tspan was drawn, if you had applied a dx to insert
> some extra space I don't think you would want the text after the tspan
> to overlap the end of the tspan.
Good point; I hadn't thought of that. I was concerned only with dy in the
example I was writing, and I did change it to baseline-adjust, as you
suggest in your post, which portion I've snipped to conserve bandwidth.
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J. David Eisenberg http://catcode.com/
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