Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Wumpus

Copperbox revision 885.

More work on SVG output particularly text labels, currently multiple lines are printed in the wrong vertical order. It looks like another difference between SVG and PostScript - coordinate (0,0) is bottom left in PostScript, from a cursor reading it looks like it is top left in SVG.

These arbitrary differences are really rather disappointing - should I simply transform the coordinate frame [1 0 0 -1] before creating the picture? It's easy for me to do, but potentially confusing for anyone deciphering their output if they're expecting normal SVG.

-- Update - the [1 0 0 -1] transformation won't work of course, as text (well, the Beziers and lines that make text) will be translated along with the location point, thus the characters will be printed upside down.

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Disambiguating biog as there are a few Stephen Tetley's in the world. I'm neither a cage fighter or yachtsman. I studied Fine Art in the nineties (foundation Bradford 1992, degree Cheltenham 1992 - 95) then Computing part-time at Leeds Met graduating in 2003. I'm the Stephen Tetley on Haskell Cafe and Stackoverflow.