Balisage Paper: How long is my SVG <text>
element?
August 2 - 6, 2021
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Slides and Materials
- Bal2021-Birnbaum-presentation-pdf.zip: Presentation slides in Adobe PDF
Nixon, Stephen. An
intro to FontTools.
https://github.com/arrowtype/fonttools-intro
Bellamy-Royds,
Amelia. How to scale SVG.
Updated on Jun 27, 2017.
https://css-tricks.com/scale-svg/
Chase, William R. Font height
differences between Windows and Mac.
2019.
https://www.williamrchase.com/post/font-height-differences-between-windows-and-mac/
De Oliveira, Vincent.
Deep dive CSS: font metrics, line-height and vertical-align.
2017.
https://iamvdo.me/en/blog/css-font-metrics-line-height-and-vertical-align
Gudehus, Benjamin.
Vertical text alignment in SVG.
https://observablehq.com/@hastebrot/vertical-text-alignment-in-svg
Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG) 2 W3C Candidate Recommendation 04 October 2018. §11.10.1.4. The kerning
property. https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/text.html#KerningProperty