> > I always assumed that if we had access to a glyph's footprint (which some > browsers do) together with the various test-alignment properties in SVG 1.1, > then top-aligned fonts like Hindi and the other non-Dravidian Indian scipts, > as well as reverse directional scripts would be straightforward. What > problems does Hindi present? I used Tamil just fine in my talk in Chennai a > year ago though it is Dravidian, and my Chinese seems to have been > acceptable in Guangzhou. Our paper on text and accessibility > http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/GeometricAccessibility.html talks about a > need for general solutions to alignment, shaping, and the like, as well, as > the need to be able to create, customized, roll-your-own fonts on the fly. > Half the world's writing uses standardized fonts; another half (for shop > signs, graffiti, menus, logos and the like) uses roll-your-own fonts > custom-built for specific problems.). Throwing away SVG fonts means dooming > half the world's expressions to bitmaps. >
Complex shaping is missing from SVG Fonts. As for bitmaps only, that's not true either. In Firefox 18 you can embed SVG glyphs within Opentype fonts. That way you get the complex shaping capability of OpenType together with SVG for the individual graphics. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jun/0636.html, https://wiki.mozilla.org/SVGOpenTypeFonts and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719286 for more information. Robert ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
