Hi Jason,

jason falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/07/2008 08:04:00 PM:

> We are using flowText in our SVGs, but we're running into a lot of 
> instances where the descenders of a font bump into the ascenders on 
> the next line. Aside from looking silly, it really hurts readability.
> 
> I've read all of the posts on line-increment, the back and forth of 
> textArea vs. flowText, the lack of line-height and all of the other 
> related materials archived online.

    Batik's flowText implementation supports line-height.  Take a
look at:

    samples/tests/spec12/text/lineHeightFontShorthand.svg

    Is there some reason this doesn't work for you?

> Do you know of a way that we can introduce some spacing between our 
> flowText lines? Whatever the default value, it is too small a number 
> and results in crummy looking text.

    Use the line-height CSS property.

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