Implementing CSS Text Wrapping in SVG

[shepazu]

Wrapping text remains a serious problem in SVG. The SVG 2 specification defines a mechanism for text-wrapping using the existing CSS text-wrapping algorithm, which should be pretty simple to implement.

While there doesn't seem to be an appetite for implementing new features for SVG, this particular one is low-hanging fruit that would be a major benefit for authoring SVG and SVG libraries. In particular, SVG has become the default language for charts on the web, and improving text handling would be a boon there.

Do you see a path forward on this one, @tabatkins?

[tabatkins]

The feature is simple to specify, doesn't involve any fundamentally new or difficult concepts, and is clearly a valuable use-case. I don't think there's anything that needs to be done (or can be done) on the spec level for this; it's just about getting one or more implementations to actually pull the trigger. I'm not sure what the best way to do that would be, tho, besides the usual approaches (file bugs, get people riled up to star the bugs, etc).