Text in SVG
Text to be displayed in SVG is held as character data. All text is contained within <text> elements, but can be further nested within <tspan> elements.
When text is displayed, the font defined in the style attribute of the <text> or <tspan> element or in an external CSS style sheet is associated with font tables that define how individual characters are to be displayed in that font. The font tables associate a character with its visual representation—a glyph.
Listing 4.1 illustrates the difference between a glyph and a character. Each of the five glyphs shown in Figure 04.01 represents the uppercase version of a character—in this case, the first letter in the English alphabet, the letter A. Yet each glyph has a different appearance. ...
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