[OSM-talk] Cartography meetup

[Jochen Topf]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:09:44PM +0000, matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:46:01PM +0100, Jochen Topf wrote:
> > For Osmarender one problem here is that SVG doesn't support text flowing
> > into a bounding box. So anything where the text should wrap into multiple
> > lines has to be done "manually".
> 
> Inkscape does allow you to do this - are they therefore using a
> non-standard extension to SVG?

Thats just a front end issue. Inkscape stores each line in the SVG file
as a separate entity with absolute coordinates. It also seems to store
some extensions so that it can later find the lines together to make
them editable as one.

Jochen
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