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.