Re: Issue 3778: Use bounding box as skylines for markup in svg backend (issue 582010043 by address@hidden)

[hanwenn]

On 2020/05/02 07:37:31, hanwenn wrote:
> On 2020/05/02 07:34:29, barrykp wrote:
> > On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 12:25:15AM -0700, mailto:address@hidden
wrote:
> > > please don't submit; I'm rearranging this file completely.
> > > 
> > > Can you add your regression test + instructions on how to
reproduce the
> > > problem?
> > 
> > I did add a regression test in the first patch set, but it breaks
> > testing. It seems we have no way to include the SVG backend in
> > regression tests (I can see one other example that tries to, using
> > inkscape, but it was disabled in 2008). I had to remove the
regression
> > test in the second patchset in order to not break make
test/check/etc.
> > Do you have any suggestion about how to deal with it?
> > 
> > The issue in the tracker shows how to reproduce the problem - do you
> > want that added to the code somewhere?
> > 
> > > 
> > > https://codereview.appspot.com/582010043/
> 
> the .ly in the tracker is sufficient. Thanks.

I don't completely understand, though: if we put the "utf-8-string"
directly into the SVG output, the SVG browser might make other font
choices, making the outline potentially incorrect. Is this a problem in
practice?

https://codereview.appspot.com/582010043/