long strings don't wrap in SVG output

[walter]

Long strings don't wrap in the SVG output generated in Turtle Art. Is there a way to autowrap or do we need to generate separate tspans for each line?

[timclicks]

From ​http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/text.html:

Each 'text' element causes a single string of text to be rendered. SVG performs no automatic line breaking or word wrapping. To achieve the effect of multiple lines of text, use one of the following methods:

• The author or authoring package needs to pre-compute the line breaks and use multiple 'text' elements (one for each line of text).
• The author or authoring package needs to pre-compute the line breaks and use a single 'text' element with one or more 'tspan' child elements with appropriate values for attributes x, y, dx and dy to set new start positions for those characters which start new lines. (This approach allows user text selection across multiple lines of text -- see Text selection and clipboard operations.)
• Express the text to be rendered in another XML namespace such as XHTML [XHTML] embedded inline within a 'foreignObject' element. (Note: the exact semantics of this approach are not completely defined at this time.)

[timClicks]

This is one strategy for a function that would meet 2. 2 appears to be the friendliest to the user, because then they can select the whole paragraph.

parse SVG files, looking for text elements

for each text element

store the attrs as a dict
if there is a attrstyle?line-height?, then

set h as that value

otherwise

set h to 13px #? - just a guess

split the contents into multiple strings #using split_at_len perhaps (below)
tspans = []
for each line in the split

tspans.append('<tspan x="%s" y="%s">%s</tspan>' % (x_of_parent, y_of_parent+h,line ))

insert tspans into the text area

def split_at_len(s, max_len=50, delimiter=None):
    """
    Returns a list of strings, that are split from an
    input string. Delimits on whitespace by default.
    """
    if delimiter is None:
        s = s.split()
    else:
        s = s.split(delimiter)

    lines = []
    current_line = ''
    for word in s:
        if len(current_line) >= max_len:
            short.append(current_line)
            current_line = word
        else:
            current_line = '%s %s' % (current_line, word);
    lines[0] = lines[0][1:] #hack required by string formatting
    lines.append(current_line)
    return lines

[timClicks]

untested fix

[smparrish]

kandarpk Can you provide a status update?

[walter]

Fixed by Jorge Alberto Gómez López (in TB v194)